From the author of The Orphan\'s Tales comes a glorious retelling of the Russian folktale of Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless, set in a mysterious version of St.
All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation..
Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power.
Deathless , however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei\'s beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing.
But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the twentieth century.
Petersburg during the first half of the 20th century Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations.
Valente, set in a mysterious version of St.
A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M.
Petersburg during the first half of the 20th century.
From the author of The Orphan\'s Tales comes a glorious retelling of the Russian folktale of Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless, set in a mysterious version of St
