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The Year of the Rat (2009) is a two-book Russian fantasy novel by Olga Gromyko. It is set in an alternative universe in two countries, Rintar and Savria, former allies, now always at odds. The main character is a Rintarian village girl Ryska (meaning in Belorussian "small line, stripe", explained by Word of God), naïve, simple-minded, nine years old at the beginning. She is deeply unhappy at home, because she is the daughter of a Savrian soldier who raped Ryska's mother during the last Savro-Rintarian war. Everyone in the village despises the girl, save perhaps for a weak-willed boy who pities Ryska but doesn't stop his friends from taunting her, and the village priest (Savria and Rintar have the same religion, that being a cult of the good goddess Holga and her mischievous husband Sashiy).Ryska's life begins to change when she encounters a crazed old man, a former Wanderer (practicing magician in this world). After the meeting, a strange gift awakens in the girl – she begins to foresee and sometimes change the future.Meanwhile, she is sent to work at the farm of her wealthy uncle (her stepfather's brother) Vikiy, nicknamed Marmot. There Ryska, though starting as shy and restrained, makes friends with a delinquent but brave and good-humored young boy Zhar (in Russian "heat") and a kindly servant woman Fessya, who acts as a mother-figure to her.But when Zhar is forced to leave for the town (Ryska is around fourteen at the time) she begins to grow lonely again. Fessya is sympathetic with the girl, believing her to be in love with Zhar – but Ryska thinks of him only as a brother.Marmot arranges a marriage between Ryska and his own lazy, infantile son, and the infuriated Ryska runs away. She goes to town in hopes of meeting Zhar, but on her way finds a mysterious talking rat called Alk Haskil, extremely hateful and sarcastic – who is not what he seems. The Year of the Rat contains examples of: | |
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