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The Secret History of Moscow

By Ekaterina Sedia

Book information

Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Year
2007
ISBN
0809572230, 9780809572236
LCC
PS3619.E344 S43 2007
Open Library ID
OL11316006M
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
381 kB (389643 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets - a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faerytale creatures whisper strange tales to those who would listen. Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will take them to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to find themselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal . . . the secret history of Moscow.

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