A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 (A Bride's Story, #1)

by Kaoru Mori

Kaoru Mori (Artist), William Flanagan, and Abigail Blackman

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.

• ISBN10: 0316180998
• ISBN13: 9780316180993
• Publish Date: 31 May 2011 (first published 1 April 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Yen Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[inlibrisveritas]

This was such a gorgeously illustrated manga, and such a wonderful historical slice of life story!

This just blew me away with the amount of detail and care in the illustrations. You don't often find manga where the manga-ka sets asides a few pages in each chapter to just highlighting the beauty of the world around them. The beauty in how everything is portrayed is just...*chef's kiss*.

As for, the story is at its heart a story about a young newly married couple in the Caspian area during the 19th Century. I love that it not only shows Amira and Karluk as they get used to each other and the new situation but also how they interact with their family and their roles within it.