Ubar. Dilogy
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Ubar. Dilogy
19.99 €
Shamil Idiatullin is a novelist, journalist, and two-time winner of the Bolshaya Kniga (Big Book) Prize. He is the author of the novels It's Too Late to Be Afraid, The City of Brezhnev, The Former Lenin, For the Elder, The Last Time, and others.
The novel Ubyr was awarded the Vladislav Krapivin International Prize, the New Horizons (the first winner in history), and the Mysticism and Horror of the Year prizes according to the Mir Fantastiki magazine.
Ubyr. Dilogy is a mystical thriller featuring ordinary people and evil spirits from Tatar folklore; this is a book about parents and children, about family and memory, about growing up and maturing, about life and death.
Ubyr is a terrible abyss from ancient legends, senseless and merciless. He emerges from the forest once every thousand years. To devour. Everyone indiscriminately. And no one remembers how to defeat him.
Nail, an ordinary city teenager from Kazan in the 2010s, does not believe in fairy tales and immediately finds himself in a nightmare. He runs away from the city with his sister, and now their reality is a damp forest, scary creatures, a swamp, a strange witch and ancient rituals. And it depends only on Nail whether they will return home, whether they will save their parents and the whole city.
The book also has two author's afterwords: about folklore characters and the Tatar language.
Illustrations based on the text by Dina Idiatullina.
The novel Ubyr was awarded the Vladislav Krapivin International Prize, the New Horizons (the first winner in history), and the Mysticism and Horror of the Year prizes according to the Mir Fantastiki magazine.
Ubyr. Dilogy is a mystical thriller featuring ordinary people and evil spirits from Tatar folklore; this is a book about parents and children, about family and memory, about growing up and maturing, about life and death.
Ubyr is a terrible abyss from ancient legends, senseless and merciless. He emerges from the forest once every thousand years. To devour. Everyone indiscriminately. And no one remembers how to defeat him.
Nail, an ordinary city teenager from Kazan in the 2010s, does not believe in fairy tales and immediately finds himself in a nightmare. He runs away from the city with his sister, and now their reality is a damp forest, scary creatures, a swamp, a strange witch and ancient rituals. And it depends only on Nail whether they will return home, whether they will save their parents and the whole city.
The book also has two author's afterwords: about folklore characters and the Tatar language.
Illustrations based on the text by Dina Idiatullina.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Another reality