| International Standard Book Number |
9780374620752 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
037462075X
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| Personal Name |
Nayler, Ray, author.
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| Title Statement |
Palaces of the crow : a novel / Ray Nayler.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
370 pages : illustrations, 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human-animal relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Survival Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenagers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Europe Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Crows Fiction.
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Military deserters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Romanies Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish teenagers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lightning war Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Lithuania History German occupation, 1941-1944 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Alternative histories (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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