In Morovenia, beauty is measured by how much air a woman can displace. At less than 120 pounds, nineteen-year-old Kalora is a family calamity. In this comic Eastern European state, the mosque shares the landscape with the motor-car, but women remain veiled and confined—and expected to grow gloriously fat. Count Selim Malagaski is desperate to find a husband for his slender elder daughter; until Kalora marries, her admired younger sister Jeneka cannot wed either. Kalora, however, prefers exercise, pickles, and olives to the sweets that might make her desirable by Morovenian standards. Unknown to her father, the professor entrusted with her education is quietly helping her stay slim, for reasons of his own. Can the princess escape a society that treats her figure as both disgrace and destiny? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
