Daughter from the Dark

Author(s): Marina Dyachenko; Sergey Dyachenko

SFF Sci-Fi / Fantasy

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy.


Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave.


A game of cat-and-mouse has begun.


Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster.


Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him - and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.


fearsome monster.


Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him - and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780008373078
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Voyager
  • : 0.316
  • : December 2019
  • : 2.1 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marina Dyachenko; Sergey Dyachenko
  • : 300
  • : 891.735
  • : Paperback