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The Secret History of Moscow

Written by: Ekaterina Sedia
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
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Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets - a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faery-tale creatures whisper strange tales to those who would listen.

Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will take them to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to find themselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal... the secret history of Moscow.

©2007 Ekaterina Sedia (P)2010 Audible, Inc. Classics Fantasy Fiction Historical Mystery Russia Emotionally Gripping

What the critics say

"A lovely, disconcerting book that does for Moscow what I hope my own Neverwhere may have done to London...the prose and the atmosphere is beautiful and decaying, and everyting's greyy with astonishing little bursts of unforgettable colour...deep, dark, remarkable stuff." (Neil Gaiman)
"Sedia's beautifully nuanced prose delivers both a uniquely enchanting fantasy and a thoughtful allegory that probes the Russian national psyche." ( Booklist)
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In a time when Rissia appears to be sinking back into the brutality of an earlier time, this author reminds us of a deeper Russia. Sedia takes us into a magical world of love and hope.

Passionate, strange, and touvhing.

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