Palaces of the Crow - Ray Nayler

'an extraordinary science fiction novel' SFX MAGAZINE'constantly surprising, moving and thought-provoking' GUARDIAN'a must-read author' SFF WORLD'perhaps the only writer today cooking up Le Guin's special sauce of liberation frustration and revolutionary blues' LOCUSJune 1941, Eastern Europe. As the German blitzkrieg tears across a divided continent, four young lives are thrown into chaos: Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a scientist; Czeslaw, an underage Polish deserter fleeing the Red Army; Kezia, a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivisation; and a nameless,, abandoned boy who cannot speak.Driven deep into the Lithuanian woods, they form an unbreakable bond with one another and with a flock of crows whose uncanny intelligence hints at a secret older and stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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