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10%OFFLaura Joh Rowland - The Cloud Pavilion - 9781849012065 - V9781849012065
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The Cloud Pavilion

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Description for The Cloud Pavilion Paperback. The Sano Ichiro mysteries, set in seventeenth century Japan Series: Sano Ichiro Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.

A fortress in the sky...

Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since his return from exile.

But just as Yanagisawa's true motives begin to emerge, Sano's estranged uncle comes to him for help: his daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his wife - who once suffered through the kidnapping of their own son - to find her before it is ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Sano Ichiro Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849012065
SKU
V9781849012065
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About Laura Joh Rowland
Laura Joh Rowland came to writing by accident, having first gained a degree in microbiology and a masters in public health, and then working as a chemist and microbiologist. She is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed murder mysteries, particularly the Sano Ichiro series set in feudal Japan and featuring samurai detective Sano Ichiro. The granddaughter of Chinese ... Read more

Reviews for The Cloud Pavilion
Positively smokes with historical atmospherics.
Publishers Weekly
Exotic and beguiling... a tour de force of imagination.
Robert Harris Masterfully evokes the subtleties and contradictions of seventeenth-century Japan.
Kirkus Reviews
Like Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Rowland's novel is an excellent whodunit.
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