Lively and experimental, Swans in Half-Mourning plays with language and storytelling, stitching a narrative that oscillates between breathless eroticism and childlike merriment. An inventive, erotic rendition of the Grimm fairytale The Six Swans, this is the story of Princess Cynthia, who must sew her brothers-turned-birds back into human existence, while being continuously seduced out of her six-year-long pledge of silence by her ravishingly feminine lover and wife, Veronika. Using a fragmented style, lyricism, and a multifarious depiction of women - women who subvert gender roles, women who sacrifice, women who nurture, women who revenge - Vi Khi Nao weaves a new form of fiction marked by its bold presentation of femininity and desire.
Swans in Half-Mourning