Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. “A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.” (Naomi Novik, best-selling author of Uprooted) The Bear and the Nightingale was named 's "Best Book of January 2017".Katherine Arden’s best-selling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. Everdeen Mason of The Washington Post, said "Arden’s debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but is darker and more lyrical." Critic from Publishers Weekly praised The Bear and the Nightingale, stating "Arden’s debut is an earthy, beautifully written love letter to Russian folklore, with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate in 14th-century Russia." Kirkus stated, "Arden has shaped a world that neatly straddles the seen and the unseen, where readers will hear echoes of stories from childhood while recognizing the imagination that has transformed old material into something fresh", in a starred review. The Winternight trilogy has received positive reviews. The final book in the series, The Winter of the Witch, was released on January 8, 2019.
Its follow-up, The Girl in the Tower, was released on December 5, 2017. In October 2014, Del Rey acquired the rights for the first book, The Bear and the Nightingale, which was published on January 10, 2017.
She has a degree in Russian and had lived in Moscow before moving to Hawaii. This leads her to a conflict with the Orthodox Church who becomes convinced that she is a witch.Īrden says she drew inspiration for the series from Russian folklore. Vasilisa "Vasya" Petrovna has received a spiritual gift, using it to see the fantastical creatures that inhabit her village. At the beginning, the story takes place in a medieval Russian village. The trilogy consists of The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), The Girl in the Tower (2017), and The Winter of the Witch (2019). The Winternight Trilogy is a series of adult historical fantasy novels written by American author Katherine Arden.
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