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Spinning Silver
Published 2018 by Del Rey · 480 pages
Hugo · 2019
FinalistNebula · 2019
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5 award entries · 3 books · 1 wins · 2007–2019
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Synopsis
When moneylender's daughter Miryem boasts she can turn silver into gold, the king of the Staryk — cruel winter fae — takes her at her word and demands she do exactly that. Her fate intertwines with a duke's daughter hiding a terrible secret and a servant girl with her own hidden magic, in this reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin set in a frozen Eastern European-inspired world.
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