A grand tenth century love affair told by a beautiful lady-in-waiting in an ancient Japanese Pillow Book, as stylistically perfect and lovely as light glittering among reeds on the Inland Sea at evening.
Or is it a brilliant fake by the lovesick archeologist who pens the Introduction.... The presentation of the setting an astonishingly recreated tenth century Japan is as precise and evocative as the finest Japanese brush painting.
Critical Comment
Lady Kasas infatuation with a palace guard unfolds in a series of vividly imagined, obliquely sexual scenes and conversations....
The Globe and Mail, March, 2001
...a delightful introduction to the attitudes and amusements of Japans ancient courtly society. History has rarely been easier to read.
Patricia Morley, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. 2000. 0th Edition. Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780919688667
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. 2000. 0th Edition. Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214. . . . . . Codice articolo V9780919688667
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Here is the diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. The Naran age, characterised by hierarchy, rigid adherence to tradition and the performance of ritual, was a sophisticated urban society as different from ours as can be imagined. But what is The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa? Is it a legitimate historical document or a flight of invention by a melancholy archaeologist, fatally infected by his own sad past? Either way, The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa strays painfully, touchingly close to the source of its own artifice. In his first novel, Barrie Sherwood weaves a lyrical mystery of two times, making a history that is transformed by fiction but which is no less real for the invention. A diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780919688667