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Lesley Downer

THE LAST CONCUBINE

Corgi Books, 2009

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Pezzoli Biglia Collection

(Vigevano, Italy)

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Year of publication
2009
Author
Lesley Downer
Publishers
Corgi Books

Description

Brossura illustrata, formato cm. 20 x 13 e pagine 622. IN INGLESE. The Last Concubine is set in Japan in the mid-1860s at the time of the Civil War, the coming of Westerners and a way of life which ended virtually overnight – for ever. Sachi, brought up as a peasant girl in the Kiso mountains, is taken to the Women’s Palace at Edo when only eleven years old. The supreme being in Japan is the Emperor, a god-like figure who is rarely seen but the power rests with the Shogun, currently Iemochi whom the Princess Kana is to marry. Sachi is trained in the ways of the Palace and then, on the night before Iemochi’s last journey to Kyoto, is given to him as a concubine. While in Kyoto, Iemochi becomes ill and dies, and from then on Sachi’s world begins to change. Ottime condizioni. V508
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