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A good read for a cold, snowy winter night, especially if you love fairy tales. Set in the fourteenth century in the north of "Rus", what we call Russia, a woman named Marina bears a daughter called Vasya, who she claims will have special powers. Marina dies shortly thereafter, and her husband Pyotr Vladimirovich and a nurse are left to raise the enchanted child who talks to kitchen spirits and roams the woods without fear. You learn the fairy tales told by her nurse are not just tall tales, but
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I was absolutely entranced with this gorgeous book. If you like stories that weave traditional folk and fairy tales into a new narrative, go get this book, right now!
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