Also in circuit book-crossing where I had taken the book by Banana Yoshimoto I've already finished I took this "historical novel set in Japan.
say that I do not expect much read the book as an entertainment on public transport, I hope it is not too trivial a work ...
I leave with two notes on the author: Born
a Chinese mother, from childhood grew up in a house full of books on Asia. But is Japan, not China, the country that has won his heart. After visiting for the first time in 1978, we stopped for almost fifteen years. He has presented programs on Japanese culture and traditions for the BBC and Channel 4 and has written several papers, with which he has won numerous awards. For Piemme has already published Geisha: The Story of a Secret World (2002), considered one of the most authoritative books on the subject, and The Last Concubine (2008), translated into twenty-five countries. He now lives in London and New York, with frequent episodes in Tokyo.
and a brief synopsis of the novel:
"The Last Concubine" is the first novel by Lesley Downer, and tells the story of Sachi, incredibly beautiful girl who lives in the simple village of Kiso, spending an ordinary life, loved by adoptive parents who run a beautiful inn where travelers stop important. As long as the young shogun's wife decides to take her to the palace as her maid. Sachi life will change, coming to become the shogun's concubine, and amiable young man. But life in store for many other joys and sorrows, in Japan on the verge of a change which will not allow more to be the same.
imperial courts of Japan, with its mysteries, rites and traditions, suddenly swept away in that great revolutions of 1868, battles and changes. With the eyes of Sachi, the first orphan and peasant Then last concubine of the Shogun, we live in the splendor of the court, its glory and its decline.
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