The Serpent and the Star

Description

Beneath the banyan roots of Angkor, where stone and silence keep their covenant, the old stories wait. The Serpent coils beneath the waters, the Star bends low to listen, and from their vow the temples rise.

Here dwell trickster monkeys and patient buffalo, queens who doubt and apsaras who remember, kings unseated by silence, and vows that blaze like fire in the rain.

The Serpent and the Star gathers Khmer myths, legends, and folktales into a cycle of luminous retellings. Each tale unfolds in a timeless, lyrical voice—entrancing, contemplative, resonant with the breath of stone and the hush of water.

These are not translations but resurrections: offerings shaped in reverence, carved anew from moonlight and shadow.

Step beneath the temple gates. Listen. Each story ends as the old bells do: fading into silence, yet widening into sky.

For readers who love:

• Myths, folktales, and sacred stories

• The spirit of Angkor and Khmer tradition

• Poetic prose that honours silence and shadow

• Illustrated volumes of contemplative storytelling

Edition Details:

• Paperback & Hardback editions available via Amazon

• Illustrated with red-and-black chalk drawings

• Part of The Library of Stars and Shadows