The Courtesan and the Samurai : The Shogun Quartet, Book 3

ISBN-13: 9780552155328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str.

Lesley Downer

Opis

Hana is just 17 when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees for her life across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure quarter. There she is sold into a brothel and forced to train as a courtesan.

Recenzje

Vividly narrated...I believed in this engrossing story and felt my insides quake as Hana approached her inevitable fate Jonathan Mirsky THE SPECTATOR

O autorze

Lesley Downer's mother was Chinese and her father a professor of Chinese, so she grew up in a house full of books on Asia. But it was Japan, not China, that proved the more alluring, and she lived there for some fifteen years.

She has written many books about the country and its culture, including Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, and Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West, and has presented television programmes on Japan for Channel 4, the BBC and NHK.

She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller, and still makes sure she goes to Japan every year.