Volume 1: Amir (20), a beautiful girl, marries a 12-year-old boy named Karruk. Will the nomad and the settler, overcoming an age difference of eight years, be able to get married? Kaoru Mori, who depicted late 19th century England in “Emma,” depicts the culture of life on the Silk Road in her latest work. Riding on the back of a horse and holding a bow, this is a story of characters living in the land of eternity!
Reading Schedule
My current plan is to strart with one chapter in the first week and then possibly increase. We will use a single thread for all weeks.
Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.
Will you be reading along when the club starts?
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I’ll be reading, but at my own pace
I’m just here for the discussion
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What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
I own physically and have read volumes 1 to 13 in German and volumes 9, 14, 15 in Japanese. (It’s one of four series I own in German, not in Japanese)
When I nominated this series I had not yet read the Japanese volumes and I saw it as an opportunity to get to know the vocabulary, character names etc in Japanese. I’ve since read the Japanese volumes, so my interest in this BC is a bit lowered.
I sometimes think about selling the German volumes and rebuying it in Japanese. But for this BC I’ll just buy the first volume digitally. It’s very pretty, though. So you might want to buy it physically.
Sure, make me start another book club why don’t you… Which is to say: I already own some of the volumes, and have been interested in reading. So I guess I’ll join
Is there an intended schedule pacing, or are you waiting till now people have signed up to determine?
Btw the Korean title is 신부 이야기 and Spanish is Otoyomegatari
I like 1 chapter per week for its simplicity. But I’m happy with whatever. My plan was to start with one chapter at first. And then people can see how fast they can read a chapter and we will probably have a vote.
I pre-prepped for this chapter a few weeks ago by reading ahead to make my vocab sheet, and at first I was intimidated because it was my first time reading something without furigana in earnest, but if I learned anything from the experience it was that reading without furigana isn’t actually that scary lol. Since then I’ve read more furigana-less (is there a word for that?) manga. Woo, learning progress!
The scene where they were all talking about their wishlist for the market was really a doozy. It took me forever to figure out what this word was. But the toughest part for me was the scene with the evil plotting at the end. If I hadn’t read this in English a few years ago I probably wouldn’t have been able to follow it.
Excited to continue reading this! This is probably the most beautiful manga in my collection right now.
The art work and cultural details are always so delightful in this story. I love the part where it shows Amir hunting and how everyone is surprised at not only her hunting, but the taste of the food she prepared with the wild rabbit - it clearly shows the cultural difference between her people and her new family (especially considering that hunting is probably a gendered activity, so I doubt women in her new village partake in it). It’s also pleasant how everyone is accepting, instead of trying to discourage her to make her fit into their own habits and world views.
Thx for sharing! I read with minimal lookups (mix of laziness & tail end of being sick). It’s interesting to see a handful of words where I understood the meaning, but got the reading wrong… I should probably add those to my SRS
Besides the fact that it’s an arranged marriage and knowing vaguely what to expect from the art, I didn’t know anything about this going in! So I was surprised and delighted to find out what a badass Amiru is! I love her already.
My biggest question this week was actually … on the last page, the third panel. Am I supposed to understand what is being depicted?
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A bride’s story
A young bride’s story
신부 이야기
Otoyomegatari
