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Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek

February 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Mitya is not good at math, as you can see. But he’s good at imagination. Mitya is utterly convinced that no one has ever looked at two halves long enough, or attentively enough. Mitya has some stories for you. Much like Mitya himself, this novel contains multitudes. Katya Kazbek, who often works as a translator, holds the door open for the curious reader with snippets of fairy tales. Sometimes these tales are her takes on mythology, and sometimes they are the mythology of being a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa ·
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