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Mervi2012
Posted 2016-07-13 7:57 AM (#14001 - in reply to #12239)
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I finished Catherynne Valente's Deathless. It's retelling of Russian fairy tales set in Soviet Union. The latter half is set in Leningrad during WW II and it was actually hard to read about the suffering of the starving and dying people. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. It centers on Marya Morevna, who is the bride of Koschei the Deathless. Apparently Koschei is a devil like figure in Russian fairy tales but in this book he's the Tsar of Life who is constantly at war with the Tsar of Death. It's strange book but also beautiful one.

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