![]() ![]() In Lithvas - a country ruled by a Tsar and his dukes, and harried by gold-hungry fairy creatures called the Staryk - three young women struggle to make the most of their lives. (Full disclosure: I, too, had a story in The Starlit Wood.) It's a sophisticated development of her short story by the same title published in the 2016 anthology The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales - itself a brilliant reclamation of "Rumpelstiltskin," digging deep into that story's anti-Semitism and pulling up something nourishing from the roots. Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver is not a sequel to her 2015 novel Uprooted, though both are richly remade fairy tales set in fantastical versions of Eastern Europe with addictive voice work and characterization. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Spinning Silver Author Naomi Novik ![]()
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