Uprooted (novel)
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| Author | Naomi Novik |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Stand-alone |
| Published | 2015 |
| Publisher | Del Rey |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 448 |
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Uprooted is a 2015 fantasy novel written by Naomi Novik. The book is standalone, unlike Novik's other fantasy series.
Ellen DeGeneres will produce the movie adaptation after Warner Brothers purchased the rights.
Agnieszka lives in the village of Dvernik, where every ten years, the local wizard (known as "the Dragon") collects one teenage girl as payment for protecting the villagers from the magical forest that surrounds them. When, against all odds, the Dragon selects Agnieszka, both their lives begin to change in ways that nobody expected.
Uprooted won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award in the category Adult Literature. It was also nominated for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
The book, owing to the author's mother being Polish, contains a number of references to the Polish culture. Most Polnyan characters bear Polish names, including the protagonist whose name references a story Agnieszka Skrawek Nieba (Agnieszka Piece of Sky) by Natalia Gałczynska, as explained in the Acknowledgements. Baba Jaga is a common boogeyman in Slavic folklore. The rival nation of Polnya, Rosya, shares its pronunciation with the Polish word for Russia, Rosja. The 'birthday song about living a hundred years' to the melody of which Agnieszka chants the spell which cures the Dragon of corruption is a clear reference to the Polish birthday song Sto lat, literally 'one hundred years'. The lyrics of another song quoted in the book, 'about the spark on the hearth, telling its long stories', are translation of a part of a bedtime song Bajka iskierki (or, Z popielnika na Wojtusia) by Janina Porazińska. At the final feast, Agnieszka tastes zhurek which is a phonetic spelling of an Eastern European soup known in Poland as żurek.
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