A Bride's Story

乙嫁語り

In a town near the Caspian Sea during the Russian push into Central Asia in the late nineteenth century, twenty-year-old Amir travels from a distant village to marry into the Eihon household. Her husband, Karluk, is a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior, and the two ease into married life across the gap in their ages. Skilled in archery, riding, and hunting, Amir settles into her new home even as her own family begins pressing to take her back.