The Courtesan and the Samurai - Rilegato

Downer, Lesley

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0593057937 ISBN 13: 9780593057933

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2010

Riassunto

Japan, 1868: the last shogun has been defeated, the age of the emperors is about to begin - and in Japan's frozen north a diehard band of loyalists plans a desperate last stand.

Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and very 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.

Yozo, a traveller, adventurer and brilliant swordsman, returns to Japan after six years in the Victorian West to discover that the world he left behind him has been destroyed. Travelling north to join his rebel comrades, he is captured during their final battle. Escaping, 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 not only their union - but their very lives ...

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Recensione:

Vividly narrated...I believed in this engrossing story and felt my insides quake as Hana approached her invevitable fate (Jonathan Mirsky THE SPECTATOR 2010-04-24)

This is historical romance at its best. (Lancashire Evening Post 2010-05-20)

A wonderful novel full of fact, fiction, fear and fantasy. If you like your love stories epic, then this will surely hit the mark. (Historical Novel Review, May 2010)

With exotic locations and a tale of lives torn apart by adversity, this is heart-stopping romance. (Lancashire Evening Post 2010-07-22)

Descrizione del libro:

In the Floating World of the Yoshiwara sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ... A new romantic and exotic novel by the bestselling author of The Last Concubine.

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• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0593057937
• ISBN 13: 9780593057933
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352