Burning Girls: A Tor.Com Original
"Burning Girls", by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by...
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"Burning Girls", by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00CQY7REK
Publish date: June 19th 2013
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Hmm, well i liked this book ok. It cleverly weaves history and a fairy tale retelling. The problem i had was that it seemed a little emotionless. Like when someone dies...which happens a lot...she just states it matter of factly then moves on. Or when she aborts a young girls bady (although she says...
If she hasn't read it already, when she reads this, Jane Yolen will like this. Taking an anti-Sematic fairy tale and switching up, not only ensures Schanoes chops but so does setting it in Bialystok. Wonderful.
bookshelves: shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-2013, e-book, spring-2014, anti-semitic, boo-scary, conflagration, disaster, doo-lally, eye-scorcher, families, fantasy, gangsters, jewish, lifestyles-deathstyles, mythology, newtome-author, ouch, tragedy, women Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: ...
I came across this novel almost by accident. Not the ones that involve tripping or any other misfortune, instead I prefer to point my finger at Fate. In what I guess are 31 pages, the author weaves _ and in this I'm afraid I'll have to resort to the same old tropes _ a heartbreaking story with roo...
My Nebula Novella Nominees reading continues. Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes was a 4.8-star experience for me, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. http://tinyurl.com/mwp889k There is some wonderful writing going on in the SF/F genre these days, and I couldn't be more excited by discover...
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