Uprooted

Empfohlen ab 18 Jahre. Sprachen: Englisch. 19,5 cm / 12,9 cm / 3,1 cm ( B/H/T )

EAN 9781035076208

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480 Seiten

September 2025

Pan Macmillan

'Bewitching' - Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked Includes the bonus short story 'The Lake Witch' exclusive to this 10th Anniversary Edition A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a captivating fantasy inspired by fairy tales and steeped in Slavic folklore. From the author of A Deadly Education and His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik. 'A great heroine, new takes on old myths and legends, and surprising twists and turns. A delight' - Cassandra Clare, author of Sword Catcher Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they love and value behind. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked next, for she's everything Agnieszka is not - beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes . . . Uprooted is a stunning, romantic fantasy filled with unexpected twists, beautiful friendships and fierce battles against dark forces. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Winner of the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel * * * Praise for Uprooted: 'So vividly believable that it almost seems you could work the spells' - Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea 'Uprooted has everything I love about Novik's writing' - Patrick Rothfuss, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle series 'Uprooted by Naomi Novik is enchanting, in every sense' - Robin Hobb, bestselling author of Assassin's Apprentice

Naomi Novik is the acclaimed author of the Temeraire series and standalone fairytale fantasy Uprooted. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Locus Award for Best New Writer and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the graphic novel Will Supervillains Be on the Final? Fascinated with both history and legends, Novik is a first-generation American raised on Polish fairy tales and stories of Baba Yaga. Her own adventures include pillaging degrees in English literature and computer science from various ivory towers, designing computer games, and helping to build the Archive of Our Own for fanfiction and other fanworks. Novik is a co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works. She lives in New York City with husband and Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.