Vita nostra book5/12/2023 Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures instead, it is their families that pay a terrible price. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Situated in a tiny village, she finds the students are bizarre, and the curriculum even more so. Sasha Samokhina has been accepted to the Institute of Special Technologies. 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 Grossman Best Books of November 2018 - Paste Magazine The 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. “Vita 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.” - The Washington Post “ Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing.
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