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

Downer, Lesley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552155322 ISBN 13: 9780552155328

Casa editrice: Corgi, 2011

Riassunto

1868. 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 frozen north to join his rebel comrades for a desperate last stand. Defeated, he makes his way south to the only place where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara.

There in the Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and jesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan. But each has a secret so terrible that once revealed it will threaten their very lives ...

Su questo libro

Recensione:

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

Descrizione del libro:

An epic story of forbidden love in a time of war by the author of The Last Concubine, one of the bestselling hardcover debuts of 2008.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corgi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0552155322
• ISBN 13: 9780552155328
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480