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The definitive English-language translation of the internationally best-selling Russian novel - a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.
Our life is brief....
While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin.
As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies. Though she does not want to go to this unknown town or school, she also feels it’s the only place she should be. Against her mother’s wishes, Sasha leaves behind all that is familiar and begins her education.
As she quickly discovers, the institute’s "special technologies" are unlike anything she has ever encountered. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures; instead, their families pay a terrible price. Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time; experiences that are nothing she has ever dreamed of...and suddenly all she could ever want.
A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction - brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey - is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Max Barry’s Lexicon, and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds.
©2013 Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Shyrshova-Dyachenko; translation © 2013 Julia Meitov Hersey (P)2018 HarperAudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Salt Grows Heavy
- De: Cassandra Khaw
- Narrado por: Susan Dalian
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
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Nothing burger
- De Robert en 05-17-25
De: Cassandra Khaw
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Plain Bad Heroines
- A Novel
- De: Emily M. Danforth
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls - a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.
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A book unlike any other.
- De Keir en 11-10-20
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The Scar
- De: Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko, Elinor Huntington - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit, in a style both direct and lyrical. Written with a sure artistic hand, The Scar is the story of a man driven by his own feverish demons to find redemption and the woman who just might save him. Egert is a brash, confident member of the elite guards and an egotistical philanderer. But after he kills an innocent student in a duel, a mysterious man known as “The Wanderer” challenges Egert and slashes his face with his sword, leaving Egert with a scar that comes to symbolize his cowardice.
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Highly, highly, Highly Recommended
- De Robert en 08-13-12
De: Sergey Dyachenko, y otros
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- De: Sayaka Murata
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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Intriguing but disturbing
- De C. Parham en 01-01-21
De: Sayaka Murata
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Rouge
- A Novel
- De: Mona Awad
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience.
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What a fun romp!
- De Barbara S en 10-10-23
De: Mona Awad
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The Witness for the Dead
- Book One of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- De: Katherine Addison
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
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Same feel, not as satisfying as Goblin Emperor
- De CalyEk en 07-02-21
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Katabasis
- A Novel
- De: R. F. Kuang
- Duración: 12 h
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Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
De: R. F. Kuang
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What Moves the Dead
- De: T. Kingfisher
- Narrado por: Avi Roque
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
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When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
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A good story ruined by a bad narration.
- De Andreas en 09-03-23
De: T. Kingfisher
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An Academy for Liars
- De: Alexis Henderson
- Narrado por: Tracie Frank
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart. Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.
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A Dizzying story
- De Adrienne King en 10-14-24
De: Alexis Henderson
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The Historian
- De: Elizabeth Kostova
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre, Paul Michael
- Duración: 26 h y 5 m
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Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor", and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.
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Great buildup to nowhere
- De Nifty Hokie15 en 04-03-18
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The City of Brass
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Chakraborty
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th-century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get by - palm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healing - are all tricks, both the means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive. But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to reconsider her beliefs.
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it's a love/hate thing
- De Zahai en 02-28-18
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The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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Have the book handy
- De Rebecca en 07-17-05
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The Incandescent
- De: Emily Tesh
- Narrado por: Zara Ramm
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself.
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My favorite book of the year
- De lsrygl en 05-15-25
De: Emily Tesh
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Strange Pictures
- A Novel
- De: Uketsu
- Narrado por: Andrew Grace
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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Structured around nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites listeners to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu—an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.
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An eerie, logic grid puzzle of a novel
- De Jessica en 03-05-25
De: Uketsu
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A History of Wild Places
- A Novel
- De: Shea Ernshaw
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Gibson Frazier, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.
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A wild ride
- De Amanda Smith en 12-12-21
De: Shea Ernshaw
A great book.
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Enjoy the ride
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This intricate mind bending book is very well written and well read. Fair warning. There is a magical school, but it’s not Hogwarts by a long shot and a “grown up Harry Potter” this is not.
In the begining was the word
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Somewhat enchanting, tedious at times
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This book is astonishing!
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Translation was very smooth and gorgeously written, and did not feel like a translation at all. Narration was great too, though it was a bit odd that the narrator had a British accent when the book has been translated into US English.
(Side note: One of the reviews claims that the philosophy of this book is based on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I have to say that I disagree with that reviewer: I don't see that this book has anything at all to do with this [outdated] linguistics theory. While language does play a big part in the book, it's not any kind of human language.)
Non-human intelligence
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Fascinating Science Fiction
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Refreshingly Mysterious
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What in the world did I just read?
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The presence of neo platonic structures in the magic system was an unexpected and welcome surprise. I've not before seen a magic system grounded in real world philosophy so well handled.
Low stakes, slice of life, neo-Platonist fantasy
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