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THE SECRET HISTORY OF MOSCOW
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| By: |
Ekaterina Sedia |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1607012294 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781607012290 |
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| Publisher: |
PRIME BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2010 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets. Galina is a young woman caught in the lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. |
| Synopsis: |
Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is nodifferent, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets - adark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiledpagan deities and faery-tale creatures whisper strange tales to those who wouldlisten. Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeminglawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Mariaturns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, apoliceman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will takethem to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to findthemselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal. . . the secret history of Moscow. |
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US |
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Prime Books |
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