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Deathless

Catherynne M. Valente (author)

Paperback Published on: 20/06/2013

£10.99

4 reviews

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Bizarre and fabulous, a book to savour.

Loved it. It contains some of the most bizarre and intriguing imagery I've encountered in fiction (much of it straight from the Russian folktales it reimag... READ MORE

Angie at Glasgow Sauchiehall Street

One of my favourite newly discovered writers...

You may have read Valente's previous novel 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making' but it's easy to see that this book was ver... READ MORE

Emma Smith at Cheltenham

Wonderful

Valente has written a beautiful and exciting book, based on traditional Russian fairytales but with the normal Valente twists! I found it very difficult to... READ MORE

Kirstie Smith at Colchester

Russian fairy tales with a twist

Russian folk tales get a modern twist. Starting off during the siege of St Petersburg, Marya Morevna is wooed by Koschei, the tsar of the dead. She follows... READ MORE

Claudia Sunderhauf

Synopsis

A handsome young man arrives in St Petersburg at the house of Marya Morevna. He is Koschei, the Tsar of Life, and he is Marya's fate. For years she follows him in love and in war, and bears the scars. But eventually Marya returns to her birthplace - only to discover a starveling city, haunted by death. Deathless is a fierce story of life and death, love and power, old memories, deep myth and dark magic, set against the history of Russia in the twentieth century. It is, quite simply, unforgettable.