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The Last Concubine
Lesley Downer
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Description for The Last Concubine
Paperback. Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Num Pages: 624 pages, map. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 430.
Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo.
Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.
But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for 'love'.
Before she dare dream ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552155205
SKU
V9780552155205
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Ref
99-1
About Lesley Downer
Lesley Downer's mother was Chinese and her father a professor of Chinese, so she grew up in a house full of books on Asia. But it was Japan, not China, that proved the more alluring, and she lived there for some fifteen years. She has written many books about the country and its culture, including Geisha: The Secret ... Read more
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