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Snow Fox

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Snow Fox

By: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
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One thousand years ago, chaos loosed itself upon Japan, upending an era in which the arts flourished. At the dawn of 250 years of civil war, in the opulent court of Lord Norimasa, the beautiful but cruel poet Lady Utsu wages war with men's hearts and holds the fearsome lord and his devoted samurai Matsuhito in her thrall. As the two men raze Japan's landscape in futile battles for unity, Utsu falls for Matsuhito even as Lord Norimasa continues to love her.

The epic romance of Utsu and Matsuhito resumes itself decades later, when they meet as vagrants so transformed by time that they no longer recognize each other; they are reunited through their mystical connection to a pair of snow foxes that are their only company in the Japanese wilderness. The heartbreaking story of their renewed love is fraught by the Japanese concept of mono no aware—life's ephemeral nature—that weighs on the lovers.

©2004 Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Sagas War Fiction Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt
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"A spare, subtle, moving love story that builds and sustains its own utterly believable world." ( Washington Post)
"A haunting tale of thwarted love and unsolved mysteries...achieves a transporting magic." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
"Schaeffer tells her story in epic style....She conjures up a society defined by both exquisite beauty and bloody battles." (New York Times Book Review)

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pale version of memories of a geisha

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The narrator should have been Japanese. The story was trite and melodramatic, maybe it got better by the end but I didn't want to waste any more time on it.

Would you ever listen to anything by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer again?

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