![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time there was a mirror, and a girl as white as snow.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Come inside, sit by the fire, and listen to this fairy tale as you've never heard it told before. ![]() Seven little folk who live in the forest. The tragic myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, stolen by the king of the underworld, is woven together with the tale of Snow White to create a powerful story of mothers and daughters and the blood that binds them together, for good or ill. conceives her daughter when she’s raped at fourteen by the king of the neighboring kingdom. until the mirror speaks, and blood is spilled, and the forest claims her. Wade being overturned, White As Snow illuminates the consequences of forcing motherhood on an unwilling party by forcing the reader to recognize that multiple people suffer when you ignore the desires of one woman. Avoided by both her parents and half forgotten by her father's court, she grows into womanhood alone. White as snow by Tanith Lee, 2000, Tor edition, in English - 1st ed. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother's hatred. Cold as winter, she has only one passion-for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called "the Angela Carter of the fantasy field"-a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic.Īrpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord's palace. ![]()
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