num_pages: 384
description: Yoshifuji is a man fascinated by foxes, a man discontented and troubled by the meaning of life. A misstep at court forces him to retire to his long-deserted country estate, to rethink his plans and contemplate the next move that might return him to favor and guarantee his family's prosperity.Kitsune is a young fox who is fascinated by the large creatures that have suddenly invaded her world. She is drawn to them and to Yoshifuji. She comes to love him and will do anything to become a human woman to be with him.Shikujo is Yoshifuji's wife, ashamed of her husband, yet in love with him and uncertain of her role in his world. She is confused by his fascination with the creatures of the wood, and especially the foxes that she knows in her heart are harbingers of danger. She sees him slipping away and is determined to win him back from the wild ... for all that she has her own fox-related secret.Magic binds them all. And in the making (and breaking) of oaths and honors, the patterns of their lives will be changed forever.
language: English
title: The Fox Woman
titlecomplete: The Fox Woman (Love/War/Death, #1)
genres: Fairy Tales, Asian Literature, Historical, Fantasy, Japan, Historical Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 1713
series: Love/War/Death
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award
publisher: Tor Books