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Yde and Olive
by Mounawar Abbouchi
Reading the Mounawar Abbouchi translation. I guess not technically a book in its own right (sue me), published as part of a master's thesis, but the only english translation I've been able to find. Someone should publish it though.
It's pretty cool: a continuation of the geste started with Huon of Bourdeaux. A girl sets off on her own in boy's clothes beating Joan of Arc to the punch by a few hundred years because her own father was trying to commit incest with her. She ends up becoming a valiant knight fighting the Spanish for the Holy Roman Emperor. Her reward is King Oton's daughter's hand in marriage, but that's a problem because these people make Texans look like they're holding a 24/7 pride parade. Yde puts off the consummation with Olive for as long as possible, but eventually confesses. But Olive still loves her. The rest of the kingdom though, not so much. Oton needs an heir! But there's a deus ex machina, literally, when an angel comes down from heaven and announces that yes, Yde was a girl this morning. But now she's a man. Even changes the pronouns. Oh and btw? The king's going to die in a week and the new couple is going to have a crusty little baby named Croissant.
It's pretty cool: a continuation of the geste started with Huon of Bourdeaux. A girl sets off on her own in boy's clothes beating Joan of Arc to the punch by a few hundred years because her own father was trying to commit incest with her. She ends up becoming a valiant knight fighting the Spanish for the Holy Roman Emperor. Her reward is King Oton's daughter's hand in marriage, but that's a problem because these people make Texans look like they're holding a 24/7 pride parade. Yde puts off the consummation with Olive for as long as possible, but eventually confesses. But Olive still loves her. The rest of the kingdom though, not so much. Oton needs an heir! But there's a deus ex machina, literally, when an angel comes down from heaven and announces that yes, Yde was a girl this morning. But now she's a man. Even changes the pronouns. Oh and btw? The king's going to die in a week and the new couple is going to have a crusty little baby named Croissant.