Uprooted

A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted – a enthralling fantasy inspired by fairy tales, by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series.Winner of the Nebula Award for Best NovelWinner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelWinner of the British Fantasy Society Award for Best NovelAgnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they value behind.Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked at the next choosing, for she's everything Agnieszka is not – beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes.Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 'A great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. A delight.' – Cassandra Clare, author of The Mortal Instruments

Uprooted has everything I love: a great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. A delight., Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense of that fine old word. A charming and inviting story that looks unflinchingly at the strangling roots of hurt and revenge., The magic in Uprooted, with its realistic moral dimension, is so vividly believable that it almost seems you could work the spells. But the book will do that for you., Wild, thrilling, and deeply, darkly magical. An instant classic., Magical and practical, otherworldly and planted in the real, I could NOT stop reading this book and neither will you!

Naomi Novik is the acclaimed author of the Temeraire series, Uprooted and Spinning Silver. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Locus Award for Best New Writer and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the graphic novel Will Supervillains Be on the Final?Fascinated with both history and legends, Novik is a first-generation American raised on Polish fairy tales and stories of Baba Yaga. Her own adventures include pillaging degrees in English literature and computer science from various ivory towers, designing computer games, and helping to build the Archive of Our Own for fanfiction and other fanworks. Novik is a co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works.She lives in New York City with husband and Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.

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