A beautiful fairytale full of magic for fans of Naomi Novik, Erin Morgenstern and Philip Pullman
Born in Austin, Texas, Katherine Arden spent her junior year of
high school in Rennes, France.
Following her acceptance to Middlebury College in Vermont, she
deferred enrolment for a year in order to live and study in Moscow.
At Middlebury, she specialized in French and Russian
literature.
After receiving her BA, she moved to Maui, Hawaii, working every
kind of odd job imaginable, from grant writing and making crapes to
serving as a personal tour guide. After a year on the island, she
moved to Brian on, France, and spent nine months teaching. She then
returned to Maui, stayed for nearly a year, then left again to
wander. Currently she lives in Vermont, but really, you never
know.
She is the author of The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in
the Tower. These novels make up the first two parts of The
Winternight Trilogy.
beautiful literary fairytale...incredibly lyrical prose...a joy to
read. Arden opens her imagination wide and succeeds in transporting
the reader to an evocative world...with a heroine it's impossible
not to love...
*Stylist*
[A]n enchanting wintertime read... fierce and otherworldly[.]
*Psychologies Magazine*
Wonderfully inventive
*Heat Magazine*
Arden’s debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but
is darker and more lyrical. The novel is deceptively simple, but
its characters and plot are sophisticated and complex. Arden
explores what happens when fear and ignorance whip people into a
furore, and how society can be persuaded to act against its own
interests so easily. It’s a rather apt tale for our times.
*Washington Post*
An extraordinary retelling of a very old tale. A Russian setting
adds a unfamiliar spice to the story of a young woman who does not
rebel against the limits of her role in her culture so much as
transcend them. A wonderfully layered novel of family roles and the
harsh wonders of deep winter magic.
*Robin Hobb*
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