A Bride's Story 1
by:
Kaoru Mori (author)
森 薫 (author)
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for...
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Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her new husband, and expectations from both her adoptive and birth families, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316180993 (0316180998)
Publish date: May 31st 2011
Publisher: Yen Press
Pages no: 191
Edition language: English
Series: 乙嫁語り / Otoyomegatari / A Bride's Story (#1)
WOW, this manga is a work of art, I am not kidding. Kaoru Mori has to be one of the most talented mangaka ever. Every time I turned the page I thought "OMG, this is beautiful". The details of the clothes (Turkish), of the landscape, of the carved wood.. how many hours did the mangaka work on every f...
This is my first book by Kaoru Mori, and it will not be my last. I'm mad at myself for not automatically putting the next three books on hold when I did this one. The story reads so easy that before you know it your at the end. At first I was kinda put off by the bride being 20 and the groom 12, bu...
Clear it was one of the most intricate manga I've ever read. Artworks is very beautiful and meticulously drawn to captured every details and made the picture seems real. Cultural that integrated with the story is accurate and well-researched. Three stars were for those pros.However, what I found lac...
The art is gorgeous, intricate and the story unusual. Definitely worth the read!
I really enjoyed volume 1 in this series and will definitely continue on to read more.The art is stunning and extremely detailed. The characters all have intricately patterned clothing and the backgrounds leave little to be desired. This is definitely on the top of the list as far as art is concerne...