Das dunkle Herz des Waldes by Naomi Novik

and builds enough flesh on those bones to make a very different animal.

Naomi Novik skillfully takes the fairy-tale-turned-bildungsroman structure of her premise. “A very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic. Clear your schedule before picking it up, because you won’t want to put it down.” -NPR Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying, Uprooted is the fantasy novel I feel I’ve been waiting a lifetime for. “ Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I’ve Read Yet This Year. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

And there is no way to save her.īut Agnieszka fears the wrong things. She knows- everyone knows-that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. 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 ten 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, bestselling 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 | Tor.com | BookPage | Library Journal | Publishers Weekly.Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling 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

Das dunkle Herz des Waldes by Naomi Novik