Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change
'Compelling... Deeply absorbing' Guardian
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mother's. Instead - after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong- ...
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Stanley, Amy
Kartoniert, 352 S.
Sprache: Englisch
200 mm
Random House UK (2021)
Gewicht: 284 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-813-9
Titelnr.: 90378498