About the book: 2005 / Valentin Maslyukov's novel "The Birth of a Sorceress" in six books opens the "Folklore/Fantasy" series. This is a novel-world. The world is unusually convex, filled with details of Slavic life, ethnographically convincing and accurate - but at the same time, fabulously wonderful and unexpected. The first book of the novel is “Treasure”. The stormy wave that washed a chest with a baby ashore turned the lives of the simple-minded fishermen Poplyova and Tuchka upside down. A lot had to happen for an unusual person to grow up on their unusual floating house - a sorceress. Meanwhile, trying to destroy her stepson, the prince's stepmother Julia prepared for him savagery and loneliness…