Katherine Arden
Hardcover | Pages: 323 pages Rating: 4.12 | 97311 Users | 14911 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Katherine Arden |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 323 pages |
| Published | : | January 10th 2017 by Del Rey Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Cultural. Russia |
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At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows. And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent. As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales.Specify Books In Favor Of The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1)
| Original Title: | The Bear and the Nightingale |
| ISBN: | 1101885939 (ISBN13: 9781101885932) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Winternight Trilogy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy & for Debut Goodreads Author (2017), HWA Debut Crown Nominee for Longlist (2017), BookNest Award Nominee for Best Debut Novel (2017) |
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All my life, she said, I have been told go and come. I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a mans servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. So this was... unexpectedly amazing. Somehow, I went into this thinking itAn eerie, whimsical winter fairytale. ❝ There was a time, not long agoWhen flowers grew all yearWhen days were longAnd nights star-strewnAnd men lived free from fear ❞ Once upon a time, on the fringes of Russian wilderness, in a land of harsh winters wavering between superstition and the observance of the old spirits and demons and Christianity, a peculiar girl was born. She was untamed, fey, a cacophony. She could see and converse with sprites, she talked to horses, spent her days in the
Set in a Fantasy-esque Medieval Russia with Russian folklore, this was supposed to be my jam. It should have been. It started out well and somewhere down the line, in the last third part of the book particularly, I... simply lost interest. Oh, well.
To see this review and Q&A with the author, please visit www.readrantrockandroll.com Words cannot describe how much I cherish this book. The characters were described so well and the story was absolutely fantastic and so magical. ♡♡♡Certain parts of the story felt so nostalgic to me. It reminded me of my upbringing with my Russian grandmother and our old Orthodox Church. Matyushka, Batyushka and many of the other words in the story evoked a glimpse into my past. There wasnt anything I didnt
Just finished reading an ARC of this forthcoming book. You will have to wait until 201 to get your hands on it.First, a metaphor. Have you ever been about to eat something, thinking it's flavored with vanilla and cinnamon? Then you bite into it and discover ginger and nutmeg (also favorites of mine.)This book is a bit like that. It's fantasy. Okay, I've read lots of that. It's told rather like a fairy tale. Okay, ready for that. It's told a bit like a Russian fairy tale only the setting is very
This is the perfect book to read during wintertime, when there is snow falling from the sky and everything feels like magic.Because this is such a magical and atmospheric book. I am glad the sequel just came out, since I could not see myself reading it under different weather conditions. I knew close to nothing about Russian culture and folklore, so this was my introduction to the latter. Actually, I had heard of Ivan and Baba Yaga but that is all and I was ashamed of myself, therefore I am
Fairy tales are sweet on winter nights, nothing more. Russian fairy tales are unlike any others, in my opinion.They are not simple, happily-ever-after myths, but wonderfully detailed glimpses in the daily lives of people born in times gone-by and tales that hide themes that are relevant to our era. They contain female heroines that surpass inexplicable odds and many have ambiguous closures. There is a sadness that permeates the Russian fairy tale tradition and a fierceness, a strangely modern
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