Título: The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel
Autor: Ava Reid
Sinopse: In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman—he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection, bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel”, de Ava Reid, publicado pela editora Harper Voyager, em 2022 e com 448 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Harper Voyager
Páginas: 448
Ano: 2022-02-08
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0062973134
ISBN13: 9780062973139
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Harper Voyager costumam transportar o leitor para mundos onde a fantasia se entrelaça com a aventura e o conflito político. As narrativas frequentemente exploram personagens que enfrentam desafios complexos, como alianças improváveis, traições e batalhas épicas, em cenários que vão desde reinos antigos até futuros distantes. O tom varia entre o sombrio e o esperançoso, com ritmo que ora acelera em sequências de ação, ora desacelera para aprofundar dilemas pessoais e intrigas. O catálogo revela uma predileção por histórias que combinam magia, mitologias diversas e universos detalhados, além de trazer edições especiais que valorizam o aspecto visual e colecionável dos livros.
