The Sisters of the Winter Wood
The spellbinding fairy tale fantasy of the year
$37.02
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2019
Summary
‘LUSCIOUS AND HYPNOTIC … A gripping, powerful story of family, sisterhood. I gulped it down! - Madeline Miller, author of SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE
‘An incredible achievement - a rich literary fairy tale’ Robert Dinsdale, author of THE TOYMAKERS
Every family has a secret … and every secret tells a story.
In a remote village surrounded by forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami’s b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780356511450 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0356511456 |
| Author: | Rena Rossner |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Rossner weaves an elegant tapestry of the love between sisters, the value of faith and family, and knowing one’s true friends in times of peril
With luscious and hypnotic prose, Rena Rossner tells a gripping, powerful story of family, sisterhood, and two young women trying to find their way in the world. I gulped it down!
An incredible achievement - a rich literary fairytale … The kind of book that Neil Gaiman and Naomi Novik might have cooked up together, it’s far too easy to get lost in the forests between the pages and disappear for days on endMixes fairy tale, poetry, history, and heart to create an enchanting and mesmerizing tale of sisterly love. I adored this book!A graceful, poetic, deeply moving novel … a simply gorgeous book in every sense[An] intricately crafted, gorgeously rendered debut … Full of heart, history, and enchantment - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)About The Author
Rena Rossner
Rena Rossner hails from Miami Beach, Florida. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars Program, she studied at Trinity College, Dublin and holds an MA in history from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her debut novel, The Sisters of the Winter Wood was listed as ‘One of the 100 Best Books’ of the year by Publishers Weekly. She currently lives in Israel with her husband, five children and a pug, where she works as a literary agent at the Deborah Harris Literary Agency. Her grandparents and great grandparents are from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary and Romania. Their stories inspire her work.
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