Andrew Bromfield Livres

The second instalment in the million-copy-selling Russian fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Siala

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Three years have passed since the events of The Day Watch.

"Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. The team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated Other, a practicing Dark witch who has so far eluded the bureax responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. It seems routine, but when they arrive, the Night Watch team has already made the arrest. A fierce battle ensures, during which Alice almost dies. Drained of her powers, she is sent to recuperate near the black Sea. There she meets Igor, the chemistry between them is instant and irresistible ... Then comes the realisation: Igor owes his allegiance to the Light, Alice to the Dark. There is no alternative to a magical duel, a battle that neither of them wants to win."--Publisher description.

Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death. By now you realize that this novel is unique. And, when you learn how it has made Russian literary-prize history, and has to-date been sold in twenty-two languages, you begin to sense just how unique…

"... Gathered together all the surviving diaries written by Russian children during the Second World War that it has been possible to find, and now, for the first time in seventy years, the [sic] these diaries have been brought together in a single volume ... more than half of the thirty-five diaries included in this collection are published here for the first time"--Back cover.