The Candlemaker's Woman |
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| Author:
| Charlier, Marj |
| Cover Design by:
| Charlier, Marj |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7345643-8-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Sunacumen Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $6.99 |
Book Description:
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Based on true events, a traumatic story of mass migration as relevant today as it has been since humans walked out of Africa.When the barbarians of Germania fled the Huns and stormed across the frozen Rhine into the crumbling Roman Empire at midnight, New Year's Eve, AD406, the western world was transformed, seemingly overnight.Melia, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, is sold as a slave to an abusive candlemaker in Mogantiacum by her family as they flee from the Huns. She survives the...
More DescriptionBased on true events, a traumatic story of mass migration as relevant today as it has been since humans walked out of Africa.When the barbarians of Germania fled the Huns and stormed across the frozen Rhine into the crumbling Roman Empire at midnight, New Year's Eve, AD406, the western world was transformed, seemingly overnight.Melia, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, is sold as a slave to an abusive candlemaker in Mogantiacum by her family as they flee from the Huns. She survives the cruelty of her owner, excels at making beautiful tapers and votives, and falls in love, eventually using her skills and cunning to save herself and her brother. But will she ever recover the love of her life, the father of her son?Melia's story imagines how one family, forced from their home by violence and hunger, endures one of the most disruptive and transformative events in history.