The Last Concubine: The Shogun Quartet, Book 2

ISBN-13: 9780552155205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 624 str.

Lesley Downer

Opis

Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to 3000 women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful 15 year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life.

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.