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- Herausgeber: Snowmelt & Stumps
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Daughters don't get to choose their fates. But there's one choice no one can deny her.
Hana dreams of floating away on the breeze like the cherry blossoms.
But when an otherworldly stranger offers a chance at escape from the stifling bonds of impending arranged marriage, duty and desire collide in a war that threatens to bring down her family, her clan, and her village.
Freedom. Passion. Family. Fate. What do you do when there are no good choices left?
A Gothic NA Fantasy retelling of the ancient Japanese folktale The Maiden of Unai, this short story explores the untold perspective of a young woman destined for an arranged political marriage in a time and place where family fortunes mattered more than individual happiness or choice.
Historical tragic romance in the vein of Rome & Juliet with a supernatural twist and a lightly poetic seasonal framing device, this folktale is part of the Shinjū/"lover's suicide"/suicide pact genre in Japanese literature, and includes reader advisories on depictions of misogyny, parental abuse (emotional/non-physical), suicidal ideation, kidnapping, arson, murder, suicide, drowning.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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A Japanese Fairytale Retelling with a Gothic Twist
K.A. Wiggins
Snowmelt & Stumps
Content Advisory: this is a retelling of a traditional "lovers' suicide" tale and includes parental abuse (emotional/nonphysical/nonsexual), misogyny, suicidal ideation, self harm, kidnapping, arson, murder, suicide, drowning.
Copyright © 2019 by K.A. Wiggins
A Snowmelt & Stumps book
This book has been published in Canada and adheres to Canadian grammar and spelling rules.
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This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Under no circumstances may any part of this book be photocopied for resale.
This is a work of fiction based on the Japanese folktale The Maiden of Unai. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and other places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and co-incidental.
Requests for information should be addressed to [email protected].
ISBN: 978-1-7775174-4-1
First Edition: March 2019
Second Edition: December 2022 in Seasons Unceasing (Worldsmyths Publishing)
Third Edition: March 2024
Published in Canada.
Source Images: "Woman Drowning Underwater" by Enging Akyurt, "Tree Branches Branches Black Silhouette Trees" by tookapic/1077billeder
Fonts: Selfish by Eduardo Recife/Misprinted Type, Sukhumvit Set.
Fuyu | 冬 | Winter
A COLD WAR RAGES OUTSIDE this window.
A war of open hostility and silent aggression.
A war of arms, of words, of duelling forces that threaten to overwhelm us.
There is no escape. Not for me. Not for them.
But what could we have done?
We, each of us, lived by our light, reached for our dreams, strove against the expectations and obligations of this world.
Now, constrained by this inescapable web of fate, what choice is left us but to abandon it all?
Haru | 春 | Spring
MY SIN: THAT I LOVED a man unbidden.
His sin: that he loved me enough to abandon his home.
His rival's sin: that he was too weak a man to break our destiny.
In Ikuta, fortune rests on an invisible net of alliances and enmities. Choose your friends wisely and remain loyal to the end, or you may find your business shunned, your children taken, your home burned to the ground in your absence.
Oh, but with the right alliance, carefully cultivated; with a powerful friend, earnestly sought and painstakingly nurtured; with such a web of support, prosperity is all but assured.
You will understand, then, why they did it. Why they could not have done anything but choose the path that led to our fall.
Promised to the son of the clan lord the day I was born, from my earliest years I was raised to be the most perfect and worthy bride. Hidden away from the world, I laboured to master all the arts necessary to secure our fortunes.
