A Handful of Blossomsnovella by Lara Biyuts

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Diary of a 18 century young bride.

Written in form of a diary, which genre (epistolary, confessional) was so popular in the 18th century and which sounds so comprehensible in our time of blogging, web-diaries and web-journals, the novella may be called a love story. A story of a sixteen-year-old damsel and her weird marriage. Time: 1764, a year after the Seven Years War.

Historical fiction, paranormal adventure

Set in Europe, the story is historical fiction, in which Author studies the interesting case when a gay man is enforced to get married to a female (dynastic marriage) and what comes of this unnatural act. (Warning: no consensual sex, no sex relationship at all between the spouses.) Nothing playful, but the book is a story of a young thing, who learns the world. Nothing unworldly, but the mysterious and mighty undead, who appears in the winter tale of the novel Silver Thread Spinner, by Lara Biyuts, appears in this new story as well.

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The image of the undead is neither Author’s attempt to follow the fashion nor Author’s contribution to the modern day literary taste; Author merely loves speculating on the subject.

J. J. Winckelmann (1717-1768)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann is a secondary character in my historical fiction A Handful of Blossoms. On the way to Rome, he is on a visit to Constantine-Leopold, Prince of Askanier-Hortz, who is Consort of my main character Constance-Otilia-Alexandrine, Princess of Anhalt-Welf, whose Diary the reader has a chance to read. After the supper party, the group of table-mates begins story telling.

Antinous (111-130)

True, the name of Antinous is mentioned only passingly in the book A Handful of Blossoms, with a reason being the same as before, namely, Author prefers to leave the theme of the god Antinous to other authors and professional historians--but Mr Winckelmann, who has much to do with the legacy of antiquity, is one of the book personages. Not loving the 18th century too much, unlike lots of readers and historians, Author is interested in the time solely for the purpose of using the image of Mr Winckelmann, at least once, and to mention the name of Antinous once again.

From the book reviews

Maggie Mack Books

“Lara Biyuts’ writing is deep and multi layered. Expect to read this book a few times in order to glean all the mysteries and interlocking energies held inside the writing. I don’t want to give away one of the more interesting twists of the book, but suffice it to say it holds a few surprises.”

Sam Kasbrick's Reviews

“I found the story-telling through this narrator to be very well done and all of the characters had quite a bit of depth to them. Biyuts did a very good job in her writing of this book. I could actually see this book being studied as literature in a university class.”

“I would definitely recommend this book to fans of historical fiction or maybe to fans of old-school Gothic literature.”

Elisa Rolle Reviews

“Complex story, complex writing style, but if you have the patience, and the courage to start it, I think you will find this is a very original insight in an uncommon era and setting for a novel.”

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AVAILABLE AT

Lulu,

SmashWords.com, Amazon,

Barnes & Noble, Nook,

iTune