This volume of the series moves away from Karluk and Amir's village, and instead follows the British ethnographer Mr. Smith as he travels to a new town. There he meets Talas, a young woman who has been widowed five times (!), and who now lives alone with her mother-in-law, struggling to maintain the family lands.
I enjoyed this volume for the change in locale and characters, but was a little taken aback at the ending, which is more realistic than happy. I hope Mori will return to these characters, so that we may have another shot at the ending I would have wanted. However, since I'm not caught up on this series, it will be another six months or so before I find out.
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