The exact time is difficult to pinpoint as the book does not specify, but there is a brief conversation about a possible revolution in a moment of foreshadowing. The Bear and the Nightingale is set in European Russia, apparently during the 14 th century when most of Asian and Easter Europe was under the control of the Golden Horde. It is not over long, it does not try to include every plot possible, and the main character appears fully realized. The Bear and the Nightingale also manages to avoid feeling like a first novel. Sometimes a little life is necessary before writing that first page.
So many authors need time to discover the stories they are capable of telling. She then went on to study both French and Russian literature in college before graduating and moving to Maui, where she worked what appears to be every odd job imaginable. Not long after, Arden deferred college for a year to live in Moscow, and her time there can be seen in the pages on this book.
In high school, Arden spent a year living and studying in France. Katherine Arden is the author of The Bear and the Nightingale, her first novel and first book in the Winternight Trilogy. The land can be cold, but the one who inhabit it can be very warm. The land can be cold and inhospitable, but this same land brought us the domovoi, guardian of the hearth, and the vazilda, guardian of horses. Chernobog haunts both nightmares and Disney movies, making an unforgettable appearance in Fantasia. Baba Yaga roams the woods, flying on her pestle or controlling her house walking on chicken legs. Cold winters and dark forests have proved to be a fertile breeding ground for all manner of fireside tales. European folklore has always been a major inspiration for modern fantasy, but there is something special about the folklore from Eastern Europe and Russia.
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