| International Standard Book Number |
9780063436350 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063436374 (hardback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
006343637X (hardback)
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| Personal Name |
Kovatcheva, Anna, author.
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| Title Statement |
She made herself a monster : a novel / Anna Kovatcheva.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Mariner Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"We make monsters in order to destroy them. For thousands of years, we've named witches and burned them, suspected demons and exorcised them. When crops die and children fall ill, who better to blame than a monster? In nineteenth-century Bulgaria, Yana rides from one desolate town to the next, staging grisly displays while the villagers sleep: animal corpses in the public square, eggs filled with blood in the chicken coop. She tells the stricken villagers stories of vampires that stalk the night. Then Yana eliminates the threat, and leaves seeds of hope in her wake. The village of Koprivici, however, is plagued by exceptional illness and misfortune, its children rarely surviving infancy. There, Yana meets Anka: a headstrong orphan who the villagers blame for their curse. As Anka approaches womanhood, the village Captain is grooming her for marriage against her will. Anka is powerless against him -- that is, until Yana arrives. Together, the orphan and the vampire slayer hatch a plan: to conjure a monster so vile, it might provide cover for Anka to escape. But their plan quickly takes on a horrifying life of its own... Inspired by Slavic folklore, She Made Herself a Monster concocts a clever mix of witchery, ghost stories, heresy, and deception to spin a feminist fable about agency and the power of collective action. It is a haunting and astoundingly cathartic tale of two women who will stop at nothing to take control of their fate."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Swindlers and swindling Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Monsters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenage girls Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Orphans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Deception Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Villages Bulgaria Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Bulgaria History 19th century Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Horror fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gothic fiction.
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