{"id":6960,"date":"2011-07-23T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2011-08-05T00:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:29:01","slug":"another-peek-inside-tales-for-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/another-peek-inside-tales-for-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Peek Inside Tales for Canterbury: \u201cThe Daughter of the Khan\u201d by Mary Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Carrying on with the “peek inside”the Tales for Canterbury <\/em>anthology, this time looking at Mary Victoria’s<\/a> The Daughter of the Khan<\/em>, which is another fascinating, magic realism story from the “Hope” section. I also liked the cultural perspective Mary drew on for the story, just a little outside the mainstream of western SFF:<\/p>\n

The Daughter of the Khan<\/h2>\n

by Mary Victoria<\/h3>\n

Habiba did not wish to be married.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her prospective mother-in-law had paid a visit to the Ordubad house
\nthe month before, accompanied by the groom\u2019s aunt, both thin, severelooking
\nwomen with large noses. Habiba had been so dismayed by the
\naunt in particular that she had found herself incapable of retaining the
\nwoman\u2019s name. Darya? Dilya? She had asked her own mother three times
\nto remind her of it. Her giddiness had been interpreted by the family as a
\nbride\u2019s typical excitement, but in private, her mother had warned her to
\nbe more circumspect.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBibi, my heart,\u201d she said to Habiba, heaving a sigh, on the third
\noccasion the aunt\u2019s name was requested, \u201cmake an effort. If you don\u2019t
\nget on with your in-laws, you\u2019ll find marriage a chore.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Habiba balked at the idea of matrimony altogether, with or without
\na forbidding aunt. But that state of bliss, it seemed, had no regard for
\nher preferences. Her future father-in-law\u2019s visit had succeeded that of the
\ngroom\u2019s female relatives; dowry negotiations had begun then, in earnest,
\non the men\u2019s side of the house. Habiba\u2019s only part in that process had been
\nto maintain a decorous and obedient silence when her own father asked
\nfor her consent. Then the matchmakers had come, and the betrothal
\nhad been symbolically rejected and symbolically renewed, signifying how
\ndifficult it was for her parents to let her go. Soon, there would be the
\nengagement party, the final farewells, and the journey down to the valley,
\nto her new home.<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n

To find out the rest of Habiba’s story check out Tales for Canterbury<\/strong><\/em>, an anthology of short fiction put together by Cassie Hart<\/strong><\/a> and Anna Caro<\/strong><\/a> as a fundraiser for the Red Cross Christchurch Earthquake Appeal<\/strong>. The anthology includes a range of short stories donated by both national and international authors and may be purchased from Random Static here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Mary has added a little bit more about The Daughter of the Khan<\/em> backstory on her blog, here<\/a>, for those who want to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carrying on with the “peek inside”the Tales for Canterbury anthology, this time looking at Mary Victoria’s The Daughter of the Khan, which is another fascinating, magic realism story from the “Hope” section. I also liked the cultural perspective Mary drew on for the story, just a little outside the mainstream of western SFF: The Daughter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-tales-for-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}