But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that’s not true: He may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every 10 years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. I might even call it bewitching.” (Gregory Maguire, best-selling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon) “ Uprooted is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, BuzzFeed, Tordotcom, BookPage, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel
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