The Bear and the Nightingale

Copyright

The Bear and the Nightingale is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Katherine Arden

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

NAMES: Arden, Katherine, author. TITLE: The bear and the nightingale: a novel / Katherine Arden. DESCRIPTION: New York: Del Rey, 2017. IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2016011345 (print) | LCCN 2016022241 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101885932 (hardback) | ISBN 9781101885949 (ebook) SUBJECTS: LCSH: Young women—Fiction. | Villages—Fiction. | Good and evil—Fiction. | Spirits—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Russia—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Fantasy / General. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction. CLASSIFICATION: LCC PS3601.R42 B43 2017 (print) | LCC PS3601. R42 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011345

Hardcover ISBN 9781101885932

International edition ISBN 9780399593284

Ebook ISBN 9781101885949

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