pstrongVita Nostra -- a cross between Lev Grossman's The Magicians and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian ... is the anti-Harry Potter you didn't know you wanted. -- emThe Washington PostemstrongppstrongemVita Nostraem has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It's a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre, and I couldn't be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves. -- Lev GrossmanstrongppstrongBest Books of November 2018 -- emPaste emMagazinestrongppThe definitive English language translation of the internationally acclaimed Russian novel--a brilliant dark fantasy combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.ppemOur life is brief . . .emppSasha Samokhina has been accepted to the Institute of Special Technologies.ppOr, more precisely, she's been chosen.ppSituated in a tiny village, she finds the students are bizarre, and the curr