Is it easy to be the Great Inquisitor? Who can, and more importantly, who would want to understand him, a heartless executioner, carrying out the will of the Inquisition? What would happen if the souls of these two, as incompatible as ice and fire, come into contact? Is it easy to be a witch? Who can, and more importantly, who would want to understand her: this evil otherworldly creature, the symbol of promiscuity and whimsy? The symbol of the Woman? English EditionĮnglish translation of the novel was e-published at Jand now available from !
Novel received award from the Kiev Rainbow Magazinein 1997, the “Great Zilant” prize from ZilantCon in Kazan in 1998 and Nagroda SFinks in Poland as the best translated foreign novel in 2004. The novel combines the seemingly incongruous aspects-spectacular adventures and philosophical depth, incredible transformations and psychological accuracy, complexity of ethical issues and mundane details of urban life.Īlso by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko: My review of The Scar.AGE OF WITCHES is urban fantasy novel with characters from various (mainly Slavonic) mythologies. VITA NOSTRA is a thrilling journey into the deepest mysteries of existence, a dizzying adventure, an opening into a world that no one has ever described, a world that frightens and attracts the readers of the novel. Governed by fear and coercion, Sasha will learn the meaning of the phrase "In the beginning was the word. A slightest misstep or failure at school-and the students' loved ones pay a price. Against her will, she must enter the Institute of Special Technologies. The heroine of the novel has been forced into a seemingly inconceivable situation. The words VITA NOSTRA, or "our life," come from an old Latin student anthem Gaudeamus : "Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur" or "Our life is brief, It will shortly end.
Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2012, approximately 144,000 words (Originally published in Russian in 2007)
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