Monday, August 31, 2015

Bargain Ebook: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente for $2.99



Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente is on sale for $2.99 for the ebook format. It is usually $9.99. This is the first time the book has been priced this low. I am very excited since I hadn't added this to my library yet. This book includes many mainstays from Russian fairy tales and folklore, so it should be a treat to anyone interested in them. It's a great cover, too.

Book description:

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. 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.

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. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. 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.

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