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Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .

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.

Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord's palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion—for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother's hatred. Avoided by both her parents and half forgotten by her father's court, she grows into womanhood alone . . . until the mirror speaks, and blood is spilled, and the forest claims her.

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. Black queen. White maid. Royal huntsman. Seven little folk who live in the forest. Come inside, sit by the fire, and listen to this fairy tale as you've never heard it told before.

Once upon a time there was a mirror, and a girl as white as snow. . . .

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After a hiatus of some years, the Fairy Tale series of novels by various authors, edited by Terri Windling, has made a welcome return. The first post-hiatus book is fantasist extraordinaire Tanith Lee's White as Snow, a retelling of Snow White darkly intertwined with the myth of Demeter and Persephone. If you're familiar with both Lee, winner of the August Derleth Award and several World Fantasy Awards, and Windling, also winner of several World Fantasy Awards, and the premier fantasy editor of modern times, then you would expect White as Snow to be a terrific novel. And you would be right.

In an alternate-history medieval Europe, the noble maiden Arpazia, raised in an isolated castle, finds herself the captive of the conquering general-king Draco. The only remnant of her former life is an exotic glass mirror possessed of witchy powers. She feels no connection to Coira, daughter of her forced marriage to the brutal Draco. She becomes the lover of a woodsman, Klytemno, who embodies the divine Hunter King in pagan rituals. Then Klytemno requires her to send her black-haired, snow-pale daughter Coira into the woods as a sacrifice.... --Cynthia Ward

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Horror and fantasy veteran Lee, author of such adult fairy tale collections as Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, offers an enticingly dark and seductive reworking of "Snow White" that echoes the macabre ambience of the Brothers Grimm. Drawing on the sex and violence implicit in the original fairy tale, Lee gives a modern, introspective angle to the classic story. The evil queen, Arpazia, first appears as an innocent princess of 14, who is terrified when Draco, a rising new leader, conquers her father's castle and rapes her. Soon after he has her sister, Lilca, hanged because Lilca betrayed the castle. Draco forces Arpazia to travel with him and his barbaric army. She later bears him a girl, Candacis, whom she immediately shuns as an incarnation of evil, mumbling death spells as the infant tries to suckle her. Lee casts the evil queen in a sympathetic light, depicting her as a tortured soul who in later years begins to question her dark fate. With its melancholy shading, Lee's new twist on an old tale is sure to engage fans of dark fantasy. (Dec. 7)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Tanith Lee has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, including the 2013 World Fantasy Award Life Time Achievement Award, and she was the first woman to win the August Derleth Award, which she received for her novel Death's Master. Her books include the Tales from the Flat Earth series and The Birthgrave Trilogy for adults, and The Claidi Journals series of children's fantasy books. She has written more than 250 short stories. She lives in England. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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“A true masterpiece.”—Interzone

“Particularly fine.” —Locus
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

WHITE AS SNOW
BOOK ONETam Atra Quam Ebenus Black as EbonyThe Mirror: The MaidenI.ONCE UPON A TIME, IN WINTER, there was a mirror.It had been brought from the East, where the sun rose, and the moon; that always-rising place of curiosity and brightness.The mirror was made of glass, which, in the lands it had been brought to. was not usual. And so, to protect it (but also because those who looked in it were sometimes very startled hy the monstrous clarity of the reflections), it had a lid, which could be closed. And often then, the mirror stood shut by its silver lid, like a sleeping--or a dead--eye.However, today the mirror had been opened.What did the mirror see, looking in?A young girl, slender, clear and bright herself with youth. She stared at the mirror, which she knew must be sorcerous, and then swiftly away.But the mirror continued to mirror her as she went to a high window and, instead, looked out."What can you see?" asked the blind old nurse in her turn."The snow," said the girl, "and the black trees stretching up their arms to the sky. Nothing else."The nurse sang in her cracked voice:"Black is the wood, white is the snow, Red the roses that under it grow--"The girl paid no attention. She had observed something flickering, shifting through the avenues of the winter forest--was it a group of riders? A pack of wolves? Then nothing was there, only the wind thrusting by the trees. (War was bounding over the snow's book toward this castle, but the girl had not seen this. And the old nurse, witch enough once to have done so, was half blind too, now, in her psychic vision.)"Black is the wood--""Hush," said the girl, irritated. She spoke to the nurse as, seven years before, the nurse would have spoken to her.Without protest the old woman withdrew herself, a snail, into the shell of her thoughts.And the girl went on staring at the forest. Her name was Arpazia. Her hair was black as the woods, her pale skin better than the snow. Her eyes, though, were a light, water-gray. She was fourteen years of age. She longed for change, not knowing the change of all things was almost upon her, nor what it could mean.

Draco the war-leader, soon to be a king, led his army through the forests. In his rough way, he had studied strategy, and was well aware few battles were fought by choice in winter. So, he had chosen it.His men no longer grumbled. They were warmed by spoils from the last three stone towns, and all the villages they had sacked.Up there, through the trees, stood the last castle on the board. But it would be easy to take. The lordling was old, and his battalionslax. Few were left to come to his help. Draco doubted if even a spy had reached this spot with the news of an army's approach.He had dreamed of that castle. In the dream it had been iron and obdurate, but nevertheless he smashed it like an egg. Then they all acknowledged him, gave in. He rode to the palace at Belgra Demitu, a king.As dusk began, deer roasted on the red fires. They ate them, and drank wine. Near midnight, Draco went to the priest and prayed."God favors you, my son.""I know it, Father. How else could I have come so far?""When you are raised high, do not forget God then."Draco thought the priest meant he must not forget the Church and his gifts which must be made to the altar, piling on the gold. But there would be plenty, and besides he was devout."Amen, Father."

They had dressed Arpazia in the carmine dress, braided her hair, and placed on her head a slim golden circlet with a white veil. She was being taken to see her father.Arpazia had no memory of her mother. She had died, they told Arpazia, at the child's birth. From the beginning, too, she had not had a father, only this remote figure called a father, old to her even when she was an infant, who now and then acknowledged her, gave her some strange inimical present, like the emerald ring too big for her, or the Eastern mirror.He sat in his library, and below, down the stair in the hall, there was a lot of noise, the clashing of the men in their mail, and sometimes women crying. ("What is it?" she had asked her maids, hearing these sounds at first distantly. "Has someone died?" The maids looked frightened. It was the old nurse who said, rocking herself slowly, half smiling--but without joy--"Most will.") They were at war, it seemed. A horde marched toward them. Arpazia, too, became afraid, but only a little, for it was beyond her understanding.The library was a small room, its stone walls hung with carpets, or else shelves and great books heaped on, some large as a three-year-old child, or long tubes of wood or metal in which lay scrolls of yellowed paper.Arpazia's father glanced up from a map he had been studying with some difficulty--his pale eyes, too, the girl had learned, were no longer much use to him."Is it you, Arpazia?""Yes, Father."This question was not due to his eyesight, only his indifference, she suspected. He had other daughters in the castle, though none legitimate. Her own waiting-women were two of these."Have they informed you?""Yes, Father.""I expect you're fearful. It is a terrible thing." The elderly man raised his gray face and looked at everything, the room, his books, her, with a ghastly resignation. "This one who springs down on us is barbaric. And cunning. His symbol is a hlack hull sporting fire, but his name's Draco--the dragon."Arpazia felt a new, more positive fear. And yet, the gale of change blew in her face and never had she sensed her life or her youth so strongly."What shall we do?" she cried."Resist," said the remote father. "Rut fail. I judge there's little hope. Presently you should go to pray. Confide in the Blessed Marusa. The priest will shrive you. Wait meekly. When the hour comes, I'll find you. I will see to it you suffer nothing at their hands."Arpazia blinked. Was this magic he spoke of? He was very clever, she had always heard, intellectual and mentally powerful, if physically a poor specimen."The nurse says," she blurted, "you'll give me wings to fly away--"He laughed. It was a horrible laugh. Not cruel, but nevertheless quite pitiless. "So I shall. She spoke well, the old woman. Tell her,I'll give her wings, too. She has been faithful, and why should they have her, these brutes, to make a slave of? Tell her, Arpazia, she too shall have wings."But as he said this, he did something at odds with the words, a piece of body theater that, without instructing the girl, yet forewarned her. He drew a long thin dagger and placed it, shining, on the table.I must be shriven and then will be pure for Heaven. Angels and the souls of the dead have wings.Arpazia backed a step away, but her father had already lost interest in her, taken up as he was with preparing his own self for death, and his castle--that no one should have the benefit of it after him.When the girl had returned to her own apartment, she found her nurse still sitting at the fireside."He means to kill me!""Your father? Oh yes." The nurse was vague and dispassionate. Her abject fatalism might have bloomed for this moment. "He won't want the barbarians to get you. They'd rip you in bits with their dirty ways. It is a favor to you. None of the other girls will get any assistance, they'll have to see to it for themselves."Shocked, Arpazia hissed, "He said he would kill you too.""Good, good. That's kind of him."The girl screamed. But all over the castle women were doing that, screaming and weeping, just as the men shouted and cursed and drank, and the priest kissed images of the Christ and moaned long prayers.Arpazia ran to the window. There was a mark in the distance, above the forests, a sort of cloud. Something was burning, from the breath of the bull, from the fire of the dragon.But she must get away.She stood, irresolute. Nothing had ever happened to her. Unpracticed, she did not truly believe in this, and so, maybe, it would pass.II.THE HORDE ARRIVED. IT WAS INCREDIBLE, awesome as any natural disaster. The woods turned black and the snow vanished beneath the darkness of many thousand men, their horses, their fighting engines. Here and there danced a flick or lash of flame, the fires of the encampment, for which they felled the forest trees, or the scarlet of the evil banners.There was no discussion, no terms were offered or asked. Within three hours ballistas let loose huge rocks against the outer gates, and once something snorted fire. Night fell, and then they sent a rain of burning arrows across the castle parapets.The castle began to stink, not only of fire but of wretched fear and hate.

A man guarded Arpazia's door, then, near sunrise, when the lord of the castle dispatched his force, this man, too, was gone.The nurse slept, sitting in her chair, silent as one already dead. Arpazia marveled she had ever run to that shriveled breast for comfort, to that idiot's face for guidance.Instead it was her second maid (the other was also gone) who crept close in the cold, diluted light.She was the bastard daughter of the lord, but had a look not of Arpazia, or her father, but of her own mother, a narrow-boned woman with coppery hair."You're icy. Here's your fur. Arpazia--you won't let him murder you?"Arpazia glanced at the girl. "O... --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008MYX8HS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (December 7, 2001)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2001
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 451 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 321 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0312869932
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Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).

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Dark and Delicious

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2015

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The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros meet the Brothers Grimm. Tyrion Lannister meets Snow White. The Oracle of Delphi meets Alice thourgh the Looking Glass. Buckle your seat belt, this is a bumpy ride!

An evil warlord storms a castle, killing everyone and kidnapping 14 year old princess Arpazia, whom he rapes and subsequently marries. She gives birth to a girl named Coira (white skin, black hair, red lips.) What follows is an unexpected and beautifully written plot. There is a torrid affair with a woodsman, many jealousies and banishings, a magic mirror, encounters with dwarves, torrid affairs with dwarves, a journey into an underground city, old hags, many bastards, sugary apples and much witchery.

I think people should not try to find equal matches and parallels to the fairy tale, nor to the myths of Persephone, Demeter and Hades, all of which influence this story. Instead, read it for what it is. You will either love it or hate it. Expect rapes, abortions, incest, an exploration of the Seven Deadly Sins and other disturbing possibilities. These are themes that fairy tales were originally supposed to be about before their various sanitations by Disney, the B G's, Perrault and others.

This book will not be for everyone, but if you like well written horror, dark retellings and moral ambiguity, don't miss it!

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Genius Re-imagining of Snow White

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2019

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Revamping a classic fairy tale has been done many times before...and will likely occur again. However, Tanith Lee's 're-vision' gives this version a plausibility and grounding in reality - missing in other stories. No need of a talking mirror (not exactly) and seven cherubs/little men to give us a Snow White with real heart. I loved the delicacy and darkness Ms. Lee invoked. The yin and the yang of it.

Regardless of the misspellings in the Kindle version (and these need fixing) - the messages are indelible. Unforgettable. Don't miss this one!

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Faye J. Louis

Somberly Beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2012

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Where do I begin? I don't know, but I will anyway.

This book is beautiful. It is literary magic. The author combined two stories, a myth and a fairy tale to make a strong point about life? none-the-less it was potent. of course you will want to read the reviews that gave this book a 1, but believe me when I say you should give this book a chance. It's dark, twisted, and potently deep. don't believe those who tell you that the characters are hollow, the author had a fine point in making the characters the way they are. You'll meet an array of characters in this story and you can't help but strive to understand why they see and react to things the way they do. If you don't understand the characters then in reality you aren't understanding of others.

Again, I think the story tried to emphasize reality and explain it through a fairy tale, by offering different perspectives.For example, snow white's mother is known as the evil witch, everyone is afarid of her, and you'll hate her yourself, but your job as the reader is to distance yourself while reading and take another approach. Ask your self if you were a 14 year old, naive, gullible girl who had a narrow view of the world, because you had no mother to influence you or lead you, how would you perceive the world after someone violated you? that's my point. I almost forgot why the queen was the way she was, but then I remembered, she had a dark upbringing to begin with, she remained a child of the past, even as she grew. Se felt alone and that fed her grief, hate and tendency of great evil.... she was traumatized

Read the book. It's deep.

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Dark, Adult Recontextualization Of Snow White

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2001

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The newest entry in Terri Windling's "Fairy Tale Series," this loose adaptation and borrowing from the "Snow White" folk tale is Lee's third visit to this story for material, her earlier retellings being the short stories "Red as Blood" and "Snow-Drop." Here the outline of the original story is largely removed, presented loosely and at a distance, elements such as the seven dwarves, the mirror and the murderous jealousy of Snow White's stepmother recontextualized to address darker and more modern themes, as well as explore the psychological aspects present in traditional mythology.
In many ways this is a story that explores and reveals the damage caused by sexual and emotional abuse, both of women and of children, the psychology of victimization which, as another reviewer has stated, causes the main protagonists to exist in an uneasy narrative world of indifference and self deprecation. At times it is difficult for the reader to truly relate emotionally with Lee's characters, but I suspect this is in part the author's intention, to force the reader into the deadening psychological and emotional world of victimization caused by rape and emotional child abuse. While there is an overall and depressing tone of hopelessness and lack of empowerment throughout the narrative, the book's conclusion ends on a note of redemption, despite the ugliness and depravity attending its circumstance. This is not, however, a novel for the emotionally or spiritually weak of heart, and I imagine that the traditional reader of fantasy will not find this tale to their taste, offering a story that is slight of action and is neither obvious in its moral or thematic aspects---any heroic elements are hidden from easy and casual observation.
It will prove helpful to the reader for if they are familiar with the traditional and often disguised themes of folklore (in part here they will be helped here by the marvelous introduction offered by Terri Windling), as well as the symbolisms inherent in the Demeter/Persephone cycle of mythology, the triple aspects of the goddess discussed in Robert Grave's "The White Goddess," and the ritual of the king of the wood found in Frazier's "The Golden Bough," as well as Joseph Campbell's "The Masks of God," among other sources. Also, they will need some acquaintance with the Seven Deadly Sins, here associated with the seven dwarves. While I suppose the story can be read without a clear knowledge of these references, it is doubtful one will be able to fully appreciate or comprehend the author's intention without at least some knowledge of Lee's metaphoric and symbolic use of these story elements.
This is a tale largely bound to its use of metaphor and symbolism, requiring some mental exercise, and as such maintains a certain intellectual distance from its evolving storyline. Because of this, the narrative and story elements, combined with the author's choice of characters, remained to a degree emotionally aloof for me, never completely engaging. In terms of adult retellings or modern inventions of the traditional fairy tale, I much prefer the work of Patricia McKillip, where the narrative is not so subsumed by intellectual contextualization. Nonetheless, this is a well-written and thoughtful work, which will appeal to those who enjoy gleaning their reading through metaphoric staging.

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Sallie Raven

unplesant violence

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2014

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A lot of very unplesant violence, and rape scenes every other page. My copy went in the bin as i wouldn't pass that on to a charity shop.

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Fantasy News

Ungewöhnliche Variante mit wenig liebenswerten Charakteren

Reviewed in Germany on April 28, 2005

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Mit White As Snow" hat sich die namhafte englische Fantasy-Autorin dem Schneewittchen-Märchen auf ungewöhnliche Weise genähert und es in ein exotisches Setting verlagert. Soweit ich es herauslesen konnte, spielt die Handlung im frühen Mittelalter irgendwo zwischen Ungarn und Griechenland.

Zur Handlung muss ich nicht viel sagen, die meisten werden zumindest die Gebrüder Grimm Version des alten Märchens kennen, das hier natürlich in neuem Licht erscheint.
Lee präsentiert die Geschichte abwechselnd aus Sicht von Mutter und Tochter und spickt ihre ungewöhnliche Variante mit viel griechischer Symbolik und keltischen Ritualen, was das Ganze doch recht ungewöhnlich erscheinen lässt.

Erstaunlich, und das macht dieses Buch in meinen Augen auch so schwierig, ist, dass eigentlich keine einzige Figur in Lees Roman Sympathieträger ist. So gut wie alle Figuren, vor allem aber die Hauptcharaktere, werden fast ausschließlich von ihrer nüchternen, negativen Seite beleuchtet.
Im Rahmen der Gesamthandlung und der Umstände ist zwar die Charakterentwicklung der Figuren nicht unglaubwürdig, für mich persönlich wurde es dadurch allerdings schwierig, überhaupt einen positiven Bezug zu ihnen zu entwickeln.

In Lees Version sind die zentralen Protagonisten - Schneewittchen (hier Coira) und ihre Mutter (Arpazia) Opfer der Umstände, in denen sie leben. So sehr ich es begrüße, keine Schwarz-Weiß-Malerei präsentiert bekommen, war es doch sehr schwierig, dass Lee uns keinen Antagonisten gibt. Oder eigentlich keinen PRO-Tagonisten, sondern nur Antagonisten. Sowohl Arpazia als auch Coira sind über den größten Teil des Romans nicht liebenswert und so gefühlskalt, dass sie keine Identitätsfiguren werden können.

Vielleicht hat sich die Autorin einfach mehr auf die Symbolik des Märchens konzentriert:
Vor allem den symbolhaften Teilen des Schneewittchen-Märchens und des Persephone-Mythos nämlich hat sie sich auf interessante Weise genähert und präsentiert diese in oftmals neuem Licht.
Auch hier greift sie teilweise zu solch drastischen Maßnahmen, dass die Handlung doch recht abgedreht wirkt (was nicht gleichbedeutend schlecht ist).

Als groß angelegte Erzählung über das Verhältnis von Müttern und Töchtern kann der Roman jedoch m.E. nicht gewertet werden. Er bildet einen schönen Kreis, vor allem am Schluss, aber das Verhältnis von Mutter und Tochter - über den größten Teil des Romans nicht vorhanden - wird eigentlich viel zu wenig beleuchtet.

Eine ungewöhnliche Märchen-Nacherzählung in exotischem Setting, manchmal vielleicht etwas zu verkünstelt, deren Beurteilung stark vom persönlichen Lesegeschmack abhängt. Nichts für Mainstream-Fantasy-Leser, nichts zum Wieder-und-Wiederlesen. Drei Sterne, wobei hier der Tanith Lee-Bonus mit eingerechnet ist.

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Dark and delicious

Reviewed in Japan on August 26, 2015

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I do so adore Tanith Lee. So when I picked up White as Snow I was expecting something good; I was not disappointed.

The story follows two main threads: Arpazia and Coira, mother and daughter. They are very similar and extremely different and serve as mirrors and foils to the other. The whole set up is quite breathtaking and serves to tell a Snow White story unlike any I have read before.

The imagery, the mythology woven into the tale, and the directions it took me in emotionally and psychologically were all new, refreshing, and interesting. I enjoyed not knowing how the story would end.

I have a few complaints, but they are all stylistic narrative choices that were taken. I did find the narrative to ramble on at points, whether this was due to a PoV character's frame of mind or authorial decisions I don't know, but it dragged a little in those areas.

Never the less, without fail it always picked up again and threw me back into the story.

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