![]() ![]() ![]() She’s awkward looking, fierce, and detests the path of marriage and childhood that is laid out for her and all other women in that time period. She develops these powers secretly as her neighbors believe she may be a witch. Vasilisa is the protagonist/hero, and youngest daughter in this family, born with special powers that allow her to see and communicate with these spirits, putting her in direct conflict with Konstantin. He fights the widespread belief of these spirits, triggering an upset within the spiritual world that has disastrous affects on the village. We follow this wealthy farming family in their attempts to survive the cold, and the strange changes that are brought about when the new priest Konstantin comes from the city to urbanize the ‘heathens’ in the country. Here, winter lasts the majority of the year, and it gets so cold that the windows ice up completely for weeks at a time-so basically a typical Canadian climate.Īnyway, back then they didn’t have the same luxuries we do, so this family curls up on the top of their stone oven to sleep at night, drifting off while their nurse tells tales of the spirits, both good and evil found in the forest. ![]() ![]() The story takes place in medieval Russia, mostly in a small village steeped in wilderness. This is a difficult book to classify because it has successfully taken elements from many genres fantasy, historical fiction, even horror can be found in The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. ![]()
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