by Naomi Novik · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408151487
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«Un cuento oscuro» is the fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (688 pages, in Spanish).
Agnieszka has a peculiar gift: she breaks, stains, or loses almost everything she touches. She lives in a valley threatened by an evil forest; the wizard Dragon protects the village in exchange for taking a young woman to his tower every ten years. To everyone's surprise, the Dragon does not choose Kasia, Agnieszka's best friend.
First edition published on 8 March 2016, translated by Julio Hermoso Oliveras; the book belongs to the Planeta Internacional collection.
For readers of fantasy and literary fiction, with a female protagonist, magic, adventure, and friendship.
Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards.
