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Deathless (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Catherynne M. Valente (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Woodsmoke hung heavy and golden on the shorn wheat, the earth bristling like an old, bald woman.

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PROLOGUE: Don't Look Behind You

PART 1: A Long, Thin House
1. Three Husbands Come to Gorokhovaya Street
2. The Red Scarf
3. The House Committee
4. Likho Never Sleeps
5. Who Is To Rule
6. The Seduction of Marya Morevna

PART 2: Sleep with Fists Closed and Shoot Straight
7. The Country of Life
8. Sleep By Me
9. A Girl Not Named Yelena
10. The Raskovnik
11. White Gold, Black Gold
12. Red Compels
13. The Tsar of Life and the Tsar of Death

PART 3: Ivanushka
14. All These Dead
15. Dominion
16. The Constant Sorrow of the Dead
17. A Pain Where My Death Once Lay
18. What We Carry Between Us
19. Three Sisters

PART 4: There Are No Firebirds in Leningrad
20. Two Husbands Come to Dzerzhinskaya Street
21. This Has No Basement
22. Each of them Uncatchable
23. A War Story Is a Black Space

PART 5: Birds of Joy and Sorrow
24. Nine Shades of Gold
25. Gross Desertion
26. What Will We Call Her?
27. The Sound of Remembering
28. I Saw a Rook in the Ruins

PART 6: Someone Ought to Be
29. Every One Written on Your Belly
30. The Country of Death

Acknowledgements

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This book is in 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List: Fantasy. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Catherynne M. Valente (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Liz Gorinsky (Editor)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Tor
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: March 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780765326300
Page Count: 352

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  • Library of Congress: PS3622.A4258D43 2011
  • Dewey: 813.'6 - dc22

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Reading Level: Adults

Sex, violence.

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