Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century
Silk Road heads back to Amir and Karluk. In the year since his marriage,
Karluk has grown a good deal, but Amir can't help but feel
overprotective of her much younger husband. Karluk wants nothing more
than to prove that he can be a strong and competent man--and he may soon
have the opportunity to prove just that. Desperate for land to feed
their flocks, Amir's former tribe prepares to attack her village with a
fearsome arsenal of cannons and guns provided by their new allies. This
time the Halgals are not interested in capturing Amir--no one is safe
from their terrible assault!
Crafted in painstaking detail, Ms. Mori's pen breathes life into the
scenery and architecture of the period in this heart-warming,
slice-of-life tale that is at once wholly exotic, yet familiar and
accessible through the everyday lives of the characters she has created.