Year of the Snake Year of the Snake

A blind peasant girl Raclava has neither beauty nor talent — only a stolen enchanted pipe. With its help, Raclava weaves songs that captivate the human mind, and because of it, she gets into trouble: she becomes part of the... tribute demanded by a cunning winged serpent. Once he was a man, but now he guards treasures, burns cities, and does not allow his captives to live to see the next year. A formidable warrior — the leader of the stone horde, whose name thunders from the southern lowlands to the northern ice — watches over his peace, and while the caravan carrying the tribute travels through the passes, Raclava thinks of how to save herself. Meanwhile, the exiled prince Hortim wants to rescue his sister, the proud princess Malika, from the dragon's clutches, but in trying to find allies, he suffers failure after failure. The road leads Hortim to distant fjords, where he unexpectedly finds something that can help him in the upcoming battles. "History is a wheel turning in a circle: it means their legend is not yet over." "Year of the Snake" is the first part of an amazing duology by the author of "Liho. Copper and Honey." The plot centers around an ambiguous and challenging main character who has come into possession of a magical pipe. Dark Slavic fantasy with elements of familiar tales and legends from childhood. A world under the yoke of a cruel dragon to whom people pay tribute. This time, our heroine has become part of the payment. The illustration on the cover and the map on the endpapers were created by the popular artist Tanya Dürer.