Vita Nostra

by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko

Book Overview

"Vita Nostra" -- a cross between Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" and Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" ...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn't know you wanted." -- The Washington Post

"Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It's a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre, and I couldn't be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062694596
• ISBN13: 9780062694591
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Instant Favorite

I stayed up until 2 am to finish this book. It's so engrossing, and I'm quite sad it's over. I've already started the second novel, and am sad it will eventually come to an end. I have a tendency to get too wrapped up in a stories formula often bothered by predictability. When I'm enthralled, it's usually by beautiful and/or unique prose and character development. Vita Nostra is unlike anything I've read before. It's dark, gritty, and delightfully weird. The Dyachenko's wove philosophy, magic, mysticism, psychology... At times it doesn't make sense, but I still found myself entranced in the mind-bending journey. It's one of the most beautiful novels I've read this far. I've been obsessing over this book and can't recommend this book enough.