When the sea became silver

On a high grief lives a shy and quiet Pinmey with her grandmother - Ama, who knows an infinite set of stories. People from the foot of the mountain come to amma to listen to fairy tales and order embroidery on holidays. Thanks to the stories of the storyteller, they forget about their sorrows and worries, and sometimes even find answers to the most important questions in them. But once, in the cold winter, the troops of the cruel emperor Tiger abduct the narrator. The only way to save Amu is to bring the emperor a light -posed stone illuminating the night, however, no one knows where to find him and what he is. Pinmay and her friend Ishan go in search of a stone. Only fairy tales will be able to help in his search, but, fortunately, Pinmay remembers all the tales told by her grandmother.
Grace Lin again, like a patchwork cover, sews a story of thousands of fairy tales, in which the reader will meet the Sea King, a Zhenya boy, a black turtle of winter, a silent girl who will become a narrator, a wise prince with a magic leaf with answers, His stupid father, the great hero of Haya and countless other amazing characters, each of which can be told their story.
This is the second book of Grace Lin, published in Russian. In it, the writer again describes the amazing world of Chinese fairy tales. The first book - "where the mountain speaks with the moon" - in 2010 was awarded the prestigious award of Newbie. Both books were published in the "Pink Giraffe" translated by Evgenia Kanishcheva and edited by Natalia Kaloshina, who incredibly accurately manage to convey the poetry of the magic language Grace Lin