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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)

The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) Hardcover | Pages: 323 pages

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Title	:	The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Katherine Arden
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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.

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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 it

Magical is the word that best describes this unusual tale, in every sense. I have to say that I've not read anything quite like this one, but believe me, that IS meant as a compliment.It transports the reader back to medieval Russia, to a place thick with forests and deep crisp glistening snow. It is here that we find Vasya, and her family. Vasya is a child of nature, a wild and wilful girl. She has powers that leave the villagers questioning the nature of those powers, many believing that she's

Such an enchanting story. Vasya is who I aspire to be.

Haunting. Riveting. Entrancing.This is the sort of book that sweeps you on a journey . "I want to save you, Vasilisa Petrovna," he said. "I will save you all. There are dark forces that you do not understand." To his surprise, and perhaps to her, she laughed. Vasilisa "Vasya" Petrovna lives during the "old Russia" - back when fairy and folk tales were not legends. Vasya always possessed the second sight, which made for some interesting conversations with the various creatures living in

This is an atmospheric and intoxicating read that draws on history and Russian fairytales. Set in medieval times, it charts the origins of Vasya's birth and her mother's determination to have a daughter endowed with her grandmother's powers despite it meaning her death in childbirth. The novel begins with Dunya telling the story of Frost, a harbinger for what comes later. Vasya is an enchanting rough and tumble girl, more at home in the wild outdoors and who chafes at the limitations pressed



Wow.....*Stunning*!!!!Katherine Arden's lush and lovely debut novel deftly transports us to Russia in the 14th century with incredible lyricism- scents-sounds-vivid beauty-subtle intrigue- and gorgeous Russian folklore. At the start Marina is frail and weak. She has 4 children and is pregnant with her 5th. Pyotr, her husband, and Dunya, her devoted nurse, both beg Marina not to keep the baby. They are fearful she will die. Marina had given Pyotr 3 sons and 1 daughter....but she was still hoping-