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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 05/31/2011
ISBN: 9780316180993
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 51