Cinderella, the Devil's Prince

About this book

A world of wreckage, and a memory owning nothing but nothingness. Between the folds of ash, in a house lying at the point of contact between the forest's desolation and the city's noise, "Cinderella" awakens. But she is not the Cinderella we know; no glass slipper awaits her on the stairs, and no kind fairy smooths her road. She is merely a girl with strange gray eyes, dwelling in a house whose roof is collapsing over her head, surrounded by books with charred edges and scattered papers narrating nothing but the silence of truth. In this work, Aya Said takes us on an existence journey as cruel as it is inspiring. Cinderella begins her journey searching for her lost identity amid a heap of wreckage, where time has stopped and names are mere symbols in old memoirs. It is a story of resilience before a "foggy memory" and of daring to dream in a place that ostracizes all who differ. Is she a victim of a world that rejects difference, or a "sinner" awaiting a punishment whose nature she has not yet grasped? Between meeting "the cursed prince" and the mystery of "Seoul" watching from the shadows, threads intertangle.