History of the Northern Circle

A piercing story about a 12-year-old boy living in a world who has undergone an environmental disaster. A book about a difficult choice, friendship, hope and miracle - his own for every hero.

Is it possible to sacrifice someone for a high goal? Bait a beetle to save a sick girl? And if this beetle is the only form of life after an environmental disaster? How to make the right choice how to remain a person in a strange closed world?

The 12-year-old Dean will answer these questions. He, together with his parents, lives in a small village of the Northern Circle, in a world where a catastrophe occurred many centuries ago, and still residents suffer from a losing disease. There is poisonous pink snow, deadly acid veins, and poet is flying in the air, which Dina"s mother can hear. But in this dangerous world there is a place for a miracle. Only a miracle is for each their own.

A piercing story about a difficult choice, friendship, purpose, illness, which everyone is subject to, and hope is more relevant for us now more than ever.

The closed world of the northern circle, the danger of getting infected and the choice - to help yourself or others, sacrifice yourself or others? Julia Kuznetsova poses to the reader important questions to which he will have to look for answers on his own.

Illustrations of Anastasia Balatenysheva, accurate and piercing, reveal a deep meaning in the text and refer to myths and traditions.

5 reasons to read the book
Talented prose by Julia Kuznetsova.

Illustrations of Anastasia Balatenysheva - lively, piercing, made in mascara on rice paper in Chinese technique Gochua and U -Sin (quick brush) with many references to myths and deep symbols.

History is written on behalf of a 12-year-old hero in a simple and understandable language, raises important questions for a growing child.

Antiophy, relevant for the current situation.

The final giving hope.

For whom this book
For children from 10 years old.

From the author of Julia Kuznetsova
What is your story about? - Ask friends. - About the north? About the world of the future? About pink snow? About green veins? About strange talyuk beetles? What is your book about? "

I have been selecting words in response for a long time. Finally, I decide: “It is that if the world has changed if you are surrounded by pink snow, green veins in which acid boils, strange beetles and objects from Lagrium, the most important thing is still the most important thing is to remain in any situation by a person and humanly act ".

From the illustrator of Anastasia Balatenysheva
"We are similar to the dwarfs who are sitting on the shoulders of giants: we see more and further than them - not because we have the best vision, and not because they are higher, but because they raised us and increased our Growth by its greatness, ”Bernard Shartorship spoke about humanity in the twelfth century.

But this is true only if humanity really wants to look into the distance and see more. A modern person, unfortunately, is more likely to look in the mirror, and the better the technology, the more this mirror flatters it.

This manifests itself in both small and large. What can this lead to? Will a person be able to break away from his selfish desires and his reflection in the flattering mirror? What if not?

In the "History of the Northern Circle", all the worst thing has already happened - the world after the environmental disaster and epidemic (or a number of epidemics) has lost the vast majority of life forms, humanity has greatly reduced among the number, has lost many knowledge and even the names of many things. But maybe the survivors took out the main lesson from the disaster?

About the authors
Julia Kuznetsova is an author with a wide range of interests. She writes not only fairy tales and stories for children, but also detectives, novels, adventure novels for adults. Julia, the editor of the Internet General Caterpillar Internet, also works with the Retourp magazine, which tells about children"s literature and is engaged in translation activities. Julia was born in the family of writer Nikita Kuznetsova. Under the pseudonym Nikita Marzan, he wrote psychological and humorous prose.

Julia wrote the first story "On Hate" at 16. While studying at the Faculty of Philology, she published two textbooks in English. She worked as a teacher at the center of personality development.

The favorite genre of the writer is a psychological story. In her books, she raises serious and important topics that take care of many teenagers.

Anastasia Balatenysheva draws as much as he remembers. In childhood, it was enough to give her pencils and paper so that her for hours was not heard and not visible. Once, when Nastya was five years old, her mother led her for a walk. They walked past the art school, and the girl saw many, many gypsum busts and heads in the windows. Of course, she asked her mother what it was, and her mother, of course, explained. After which Nastya said: “Here I am to grow up, I’ll go to this school, I’ll finish her for all the five, and then I will become the best artist in the world!” So it turned out