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Rusalka
Rusalka
Author: C.J. Cherryh
In the folk-tales of pre-christian Russia north of Kiev, the world was full of spirits, mostly hostile, that must be propitiated. There were Yard-Things, Cellar Things, and a host of others. Most dangerous of all was the Rusalka, the ghost of a murdered girl, still seeking to exist by drawing the energy of life from all nearby living things. — On...  more »
ISBN: 290762
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Ballantine
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Here in her first novel for Del Rey Books, bestselling, award-winning C.J. Cherryh tells a grim but warmly human story of courage, sacrifice, and desperate love between a tormented spirit and a mortal man. the Rusalka is the ghost of a murdered girl who must draw energy from other life forms in order to exist.


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