Title: The Bear and the Nightingale Pdf A Novel (Winternight Trilogy)
Author: Katherine Arden
Published Date: 2017-06-27
Page: 368
“Arden’s debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but is darker and more lyrical.”—The Washington Post“Vasya [is] a clever, stalwart girl determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices.”—The Christian Science Monitor“Stunning . . . will enchant readers from the first page. . . . with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Utterly bewitching . . . a lush narrative . . . an immersive, earthy story of folk magic, faith, and hubris, peopled with vivid, dynamic characters, particularly clever, brave Vasya, who outsmarts men and demons alike to save her family.”—Booklist (starred review) “Arden’s supple, sumptuous first novel transports the reader to a version of medieval Russia where history and myth coexist.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Radiant . . . a darkly magical fairy tale for adults, [but] not just for those who love magic.”—Library Journal“An extraordinary retelling of a very old tale . . . A Russian setting adds unfamiliar spice to the story of a young woman who does not rebel against the limits of her role in her culture so much as transcend them. The Bear and the Nightingale is a wonderfully layered novel of family and the harsh wonders of deep winter magic.”—Robin Hobb “A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik“Haunting and lyrical, The Bear and the Nightingale tugs at the heart and quickens the pulse. I can’t wait for Katherine Arden's next book.”—Terry Brooks “The Bear and the Nightingale is a marvelous trip into an ancient Russia where magic is a part of everyday life.”—Todd McCaffrey “Enthralling and enchanting—I couldn’t put it down. This is a wondrous book!”—Tamora Pierce Born in Austin, Texas, Katherine Arden spent a year of high school in Rennes, France. Following her acceptance to Middlebury College in Vermont, she deferred enrollment for a year in order to live and study in Moscow. At Middlebury, she specialized in French and Russian literature. After receiving her BA, she moved to Maui, Hawaii, working every kind of odd job imaginable, from grant writing and making crêpes to guiding horse trips. Currently she lives in Vermont, but really, you never know.
“A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted
Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.
Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village.
But Vasya’s stepmother only grows harsher, determined to remake the village to her liking and to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for marriage or a convent. As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasilisa must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed—to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
Praise for The Bear and the Nightingale
“Arden’s debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but is darker and more lyrical.”—The Washington Post
“Vasya [is] a clever, stalwart girl determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Stunning . . . will enchant readers from the first page. . . . with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Utterly bewitching . . . a lush narrative . . . an immersive, earthy story of folk magic, faith, and hubris, peopled with vivid, dynamic characters, particularly clever, brave Vasya, who outsmarts men and demons alike to save her family.”—Booklist (starred review)
“An extraordinary retelling of a very old tale . . . The Bear and the Nightingale is a wonderfully layered novel of family and the harsh wonders of deep winter magic.”—Robin Hobb
I wished for more and I wished for better, at the end I think I was misled by many of the reviews and reviewers here.The book started off relatively strong, with a strong dose of seeming historical realism and a touch of magic realism and elements of Russian folk lore.However, as the novel progressed it became more cliched, following a standard "young adult" template, in my opinion.This is definitely "chick lit" (I know this term can be offensive, but I believe it's true and applicable, in this case. I suspect the overwhelming number of readers and reviewers here are female). Morozko, who starts out as a mysterious elemental force, becomes, by the end, a kind of young adult female fantasy figure--a kind of combination Mr. Rochester, Heathcliff, and distant but attractive generic "bad boy"--and at the very end, even a kind of banal "Laurel and Hardy" partner in crime.Vasya's time in Morozko's "house" has a "Nutcracker"-ish flavor to me--the young girl's fantasy of the "snow prince." Again, a very "chick lit"-ish trope.The final climax was anticlimactic for me, and the final emotions, words, and actions seemed not fully earned to me, and sometimes devolved into pulp fiction cliches.I wished for more and I wished for better, at the end. Probably won't proceed to the second book.P.S. And if one more character spoke with "asperity," I was planning to rip that word out of my dictionary. And if Morozko "raised his eyebrow" one more time, I was going to send him to a waxing salon.Not for adult readers This is a cute little fairy tale with a Russian flavor. Good vs evil with a young woman at its heart. Suitable for anyone old enough to know that men and women do something in bed at night to make babies. There is no overt sex.The book isn't so interesting for an adult reader.I received a copy of "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden (Del Rey) through NetGalley.com.Self indulgent nonsense Let me put this within a context that might resonate better. So, imagine if I opined that all Muslims are terrorists and that anyone who isn't heterosexual is evil and less deserving of compassion and love. How fast would it take you to flag this review?This book went from a story premised on Russian folklore to one that not only degrades Christians, but it also characterizes them as duplicitous and malevolent.Look, real-life comprises layers and nuances and not one group is completely good or bad, but to malign, for instance, an entire race because of prejudice and/or ignorance is not acceptable to me; not unless such is required to advance the story. And quite frankly, I don't believe that Arden adequately justifies this plot device; which makes it seem like a self-indulgent, deliberate, and malicious subversion of Orthodox Christianity.In the end, and by juxtaposing mysticism with Orthodoxy in a "good v bad" battle (with Christianity being all bad), Arden allowed her personal bias and prejudice interfere with the organic flow of what could have been a rather enthralling read. And I couldn't help but wonder if she would have dared insinuate this sort of drivel about the Ottoman Empire, or Islam for that matter.
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