Rowling: “Jack’s Wonderful Journey with the Christmas Pig”

It was meant to be a Christmas story this time, J.K. Rowling explained to publish “Jack’s Wonderful Journey with the Christmas Pig.” But the namesake Christmas pig is actually just a cheap alternative to Jack’s lovable pig, who has taken him everywhere with him for as long as possible.

It’s quite gray now, dull and hard-eared from absorbing too much. Without this pig, Jack, who is already going to school, cannot sleep. Comes what must come: On Christmas Eve it’s all, his half-sister throws the adorable pig out of the car window in an argument—in the middle of the highway.

The pig is lost, it cannot be recovered. Even a hastily purchased alternative is useless. Heartbreaker Jack. But it wouldn’t be a Christmas story if there wasn’t some kind of hope: In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland or The Nutcracker, JK Rowling allows Jack to travel to the Land of the Lost with a brand new pig — keep in mind: this is only possible on Christmas Eve! Where all the lost things from the land of the living are waiting to be found again.

This book is not a page turner in the sense of the Potter series or your own crime novels about Detective Cormoran Strike. It’s a fairy tale full of comedy and magic, albeit a bit predictable.

Here things live in different cities, divided strictly hierarchically, depending on how much they have been lost: in the “City of the Lost”, or “Unfortunately”, or “worn out”, or even worse: in the “Witland”. But these pauses in Jack’s journey lead to perfectly normal stages of reading to sleep over the course of several days.

In this story, Rowling lives her sense of the absurd and her power to bring the characters back to life with just a few words: for example with a slightly depressed, dented lunch box, which is out of existence in ‘obsolete’, but that is then suddenly upgraded after ‘sorry’ Gone” because her little owner’s inhaler is in it and her mom is suddenly looking for her lunchbox.

The same goes for the cheese grater, the address book, the poem, the clock, the glasses and the scissors, but also luck, ambition and hope, which all landed in the land of the lost – compliments of screenwriter Rowling. The animated movie we’ll likely be watching shortly before Christmas in a few years is being created in the mind’s eye at the same time.

Jack’s bizarre journey with the Christmas Pig is a declaration of love for the childlike idea that the things we love are still alive. The disposal and disposal of à la Marie Kondo has been very popular in recent years. After reading this story, you will never again be able to throw away a beloved game without feeling guilty.