The Courtesan and the Samurai
The Shogun Quartet, Book 3
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2011
Summary
- In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love…
Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters. There she is forced to become a courtesan.
Yozo, brave, loyal and a brilliant swordsman, is pledged to the embattled shogun. He sails to the fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552155328 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0552155322 |
| Author: | Lesley Downer |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 325g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Corgi Books |
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Vividly narrated…I believed in this engrossing story and felt my insides quake as Hana approached her inevitable fate
Vividly narrated…I believed in this engrossing story and felt my insides quake as Hana approached her inevitable fate – Jonathan Mirsky * THE SPECTATOR *
About The Author
Lesley Downer
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.
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