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The Bone Mother - by David Demchuk (Paperback)

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  • WINNER OF THE 2018 SUNBURST AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD, AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD, AND SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFor two hundred years, the Grazyn porcelain factory built its reputation on its magnificent thimbles.
  • Author(s): David Demchuk
  • 220 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Horror

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Sunburst Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award nominee, David Demchuk's acclaimed debut horror novel The Bone Mother tells of an Eastern European enclave of witches, ghosts and creatures of fairytale and folklore facing extinction on the eve of WWII. "Extraordinary...a dark and shining mosaic of a story." Publishers Weekly (starred review)



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WINNER OF THE 2018 SUNBURST AWARD

NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD, AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD, AND SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

For two hundred years, the Grazyn porcelain factory built its reputation on its magnificent thimbles. It is said that even the Czarina Anastasia Romanova had received one in her trousseau. The workers come from the three neighboring villages on the border of Romania and Ukraine. Nourished, dressed and educated, they are the envy of all at a time when a famine programmed by Stalin sweeps the countryside and cannibalism rages from city to town to farm. But what is the secret of this factory and why does the Grazyn family protect its employees so scrupulously?

The Bone Mother revives the great figures of Slavic mythology on the eve of the Second World War, from rusalka and Baba Yaga--The Bone Mother herself--to the golem. The existence of mortals is intimately linked to that of witches and vampires, in a universe where strigois rub shoulders with mermaids, ghosts and seers...and all are in peril from the Nichni Politsiyi, the Night Police, which wish to eradicate them.

'A master of bowel-loosening terror' The Globe and Mail

'Demchuk gracefully pieces together a dark and shining mosaic of a story with unforgettable imagery and elegant, evocative prose.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'This is a book that bends genres, using the monsters of imagination as a back door to understanding the monsters of the real.' Nino Ricci

Award-winning author David Demchuk was born and raised in Winnipeg and now lives in Toronto. He has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for nearly 40 years. The Bone Mother is his first novel.



Review Quotes




'David Demchuk...A master of bowel-loosening terror' The Globe and Mail

'Moving, horrifying, terrifying' Ellen Datlow, editor, The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10

'Wise and claustrophobically beautiful' Hugo Award-winning author Samuel R. Delany

'Brilliant and totally original' Christopher Golden, author of Ararat and The Pandora Room

'This extraordinary debut novel crosses borders and boundaries' Publishers Weekly (starred review)


Dimensions (Overall): 7.99 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .46 Inches (D)
Weight: .49 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 220
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Horror
Publisher: Proving Ground Press
Format: Paperback
Author: David Demchuk
Language: English
Street Date: May 26, 2020
TCIN: 92322688
UPC: 9780994097002
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-8679
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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