The Night watch

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Автор: Лукьяненко Сергей Васильевич

Серия: Night Watch (UK) #1

Язык: английский

Год: 2008

Издатель: Seal Books

ISBN: 978-0-307-37365-6

Переводчик: Andrew Bromfield

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Аннотация

The phenomenal Russian bestseller. A vampire novel set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow, The Night Watch has sold across Europe and to 20th Century Fox for huge advances.
In The Night Watch, the first of a trilogy, and reminiscent of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in its ambitions and achievement, the setting is contemporary Moscow. A small number of Muscovites with supernatural powers — those who are Other, owing allegiance either to the Dark or the Light — co-exist in an uneasy truce, each side keeping a close eye on the other's activities around the city.
Anton, an Other on the side of the Light, is a night-watchman, patrolling the streets and Metro of the city as he protects ordinary people from the vampires of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, whom he realizes is under a curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Egor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power. Partnered by...