He only spluttered himself into exhaustion and then sent me away, and I didn't mind his shouting at all, now I knew there were no teeth in it to rend me. He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers - "My father's a woodcutter," I said - "Of axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled. But when she finds herself alone in his tower, she discovers the Dragon isn't as fearsome as he seems - and that her powers are more than they seem. Every 10 years, he takes one village girl to his tower 10 years later, he lets her go, with a fine wardrobe and a purse full of silver, but the girls are changed by the experience, and none of them stay home for long.Īgnieszka is convinced the Dragon won't choose her - she's plain, messy, magical only in her ability to rip and stain any item of clothing. Naomi Novik is best known for the Temeraire series - rousing adventure tales of a man and his dragon, set in an alternate-universe version of the Napoleonic Wars where France and England battle it out across land, sea and sky with the help of dragons.īut the Dragon in her new novel, Uprooted, is a man, not a monster - that's the name of the dreaded sorcerer who lives at the edge of a terrible forest, protecting the villages in his valley from horrors great and small, for a price. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Uprooted Author Naomi Novik
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