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Palaces of the crow : a novel / Ray Nayler.
Van Pelt Library PS3614.A946 P35 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nayler, Ray, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenagers--Fiction.
- Teenagers.
- Jewish teenagers--Fiction.
- Jewish teenagers.
- Military deserters--Fiction.
- Military deserters.
- Romanies--Fiction.
- Romanies.
- Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Crows--Fiction.
- Crows.
- Lightning war--Fiction.
- Lightning war.
- War--Fiction.
- War.
- World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944--Fiction.
- Lithuania.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 370 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect"-- Provided by publisher.
- Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivization. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three are caught up in the onslaught. Along with Innokentiy, an abandoned boy who cannot speak, they are driven into the primeval forest, where they survive by forming an unbreakable bond with one another--and with Neriya's intelligent crows, who for years have been bringing her intricate gifts suggesting they are no ordinary corvids. As the war goes on, the crows warn the children of danger and help them hide from the human threats of the forest--not only the Germans but also Russian deserters, Polish partisans, fascist Lithuanian police, and the other bandits and outcasts wandering the benighted landscape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 370).
- ISBN:
- 9780374620752
- 037462075X
- OCLC:
- 1535702530
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