Spinning Silver
core novel 2018 Spinning Silver
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (158,776 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 465 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399180989 |
Synopsis
Spinning Silver takes place in an imagined medieval Eastern European kingdom called Lithvas, where seven years of brutal winters have driven much of the population toward ruin. Miryem Mandelstam, the daughter of a failing Jewish moneylender, takes over her father's business and proves far more effective at collecting debts than he ever was. Her boast that she can turn silver into gold reaches the ears of the Staryk, a race of fae who raid human settlements each winter, and their king delivers her enchanted silver with the demand that she return it as gold or pay with her life. First published in 2018, Spinning Silver belongs to the Spinning Silver series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Spinning Silver
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Naomi Novik
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2019: won; Locus reader-poll winner (1st place).
- Alex Award (YALSA), 2019: won
- Audie Award (Fantasy), 2019: won; Confirmed directly against audiopub.org's own 2019 Audie Awards results page (Fantasy category winner: Spinning Silver, narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Penguin Random House Audio).
- Nebula Award (Best Novel), 2018: nominated
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2018: nominated; Reader-vote finalist round; did not win.
- Hugo Award (Best Novel), 2019: nominated
Notes
- Standalone. Expanded from the 2016 short story of the same title. No confirmed shared setting/characters with Uprooted.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Spinning Silver (standalone work): position 2 of 2: previous Spinning Silver (short story) (2016)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Spinning Silver
- The Hugo Awards, 2019
- Nebula Awards, Spinning Silver
- Wikipedia: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- YALSA, 2019 Alex Awards
- https://www.audiopub.org/2019-audies-1
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