Black Wine

Candas Jane Dorsey

Tom Doherty Associates, Nov 15, 1997 - Fiction - 288 pages

Why is there an old woman, in a hanging cage for punishment, keeping a journal written in blood? Candas Jane Dorsey has written an ambitious, feminist novel about women coming to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world. Dorsey's women travel across the world, from the slave dens to the merchant cities, across seas by ship and by dirigible, to isolated mountain villages and back again. "But there remains provocative ambiguity as the story progresses. There is a woman exiled from her family, a mother who has abandoned her daughter, an old woman in a cage, a young women slave on a lord's estate who does not remember her past. How many of them are the same woman?

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Review: Black Wine

User Review  - Catherine - Goodreads

I really enjoyed the first one hundred and fifty pages but the author lost me in the second half, it got unnecessarily complex and the writing fell off a bit.

Review: Black Wine

User Review  - Meg - Goodreads

I remember this book being really amazing and I bought a copy after reading it because I liked it so much, but I haven't re-read it since the first time because I also remember there were a few ...

About the author

Candas Jane Dorsey lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black Wine
• Author: Candas Jane Dorsey
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 1997
• ISBN: 0312865783, 9780312865788
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General