The Secret History of Moscow

Ekaterina Sedia

Language: English

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: Collection: Fiction : Genre.Fiction.Fantasy Fiction -- Fantasy Mystery _sort

Publisher: Prime

Published: Dec 3, 2007

Collection: Fiction
Reading Ease: 84.95
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 304
Word Count: 78357

Description:

The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia

  • 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 faery-tale 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.