Préparez-vous à plonger dans un sombre univers de conte de fées.
Tandis que League of Dragons, le neuvième et dernier tome de sa série Téméraire est attendu pour l'an prochain en anglais, Naomi Novik ne perd pas de temps. L'éditeur Del Rey vient ainsi de dévoiler le prochain roman de l'auteure américaine, intitulé Uprooted, à paraître en juin 2015 outre-atlantique. Où il est toujours question d'un mystérieux "dragon", mais pas du tout ce que vous imaginez, dans un nouveau monde audacieux ancré dans les histoires et les légendes populaires aux parfums des contes des frères Grimm.
Le synopsis complet, en anglais, est disponible ci-dessous.

Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

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