num_pages: 208
description: Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues this time introducing a new would-be brideTalas. A young widow Talas opens her home to the researcher Mr. Smith who has ventured to her town to continue his studies. However when Talas's uncle begins to see Smith as an impediment to his plans to wed his son to Talas the old man's schemes land the Englishman in prison! Far from friends and even farther from home Smith's outlook seems grim...Crafted in painstaking detail Ms. Moris pen breathes life into the scenery and architecture of the period in this heartwarming slice-of-life tale that is at once both wholly exotic yet familiar and accessible through the everyday lives of the rich characters she has created.
language: English
title: A Bride's Story, Vol. 3
publisher: Orbit/Yen Press