Summary
Katherine Arden: The Bear and the Nightingale
Set in the historical Russian lands of the end of the 14th century, just like the world of Russian mythology, the first part of the trilogy Winter Night tells the story of the little girl Vasya, the daughter of a provincial boyar, who inherited from her mother the ability to see ghosts - spirits of hearths, barns, forests and streams, just like the great powers of the Slavic world: the king of winter Morozko and his sworn enemy the Bear. Because the Bear wakes up after long years of captivity when the people under the influence of a charismatic priest begin to lose their old faith...
The Bear and the Nightingale was declared the best title in the combined genres of fantasy and science fiction in 2017 on Amazon. It started the Winter Night trilogy, which continues with the works The Girl in the Tower and Winter for the Witch.
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