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  • The Shortest History of Japan

    From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse - The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    Discover the aesthetic traditions, political resilience, and modern economic might of this singular island nation. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Concubine

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Growing up deep in the mountains of rural Japan in 1861, Sachi has always felt different. Her life is turned upside down at 11 when she is taken to the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. There she is chosen to be the young shogun’s concubine. Set in one of the most tumultuous eras in Japanese history, The Last Concubine is an epic evocation of a country in revolution, and of a young woman’s ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Courtesan and the Samurai

    The Shogun Quartet, Book 3

    by Lesley Downer ...
    1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters.There she is forced to become a courtesan.Yozo, brave, loyal ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story)

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time.Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will? ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    The Shortest History of Japan

    From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse―The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Narrated by Lucy Rayner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.Even at the nearest point, Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland—is considerably farther from Asia ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    An astonishing debut novel inspired by the life of the legendary Qing dynasty courtesan, Sai JinhuaThe year is 1881, the era of China's humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left alone and unprotected, her life transformed after her mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. As an orphan, she endures the brutal logic of a brothel ... Read more

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  • The Red Chamber

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    In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins in the Capital, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor, presided over by ... Read more

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  • Geisha in Rivalry

    by Kafu Nagai ...
    Translated by Kurt Meissner, Ralph Friedrich ...
    Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai's masterpieces.Set against the backdrop of Tokyo's Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid characters play out their drama of illicit love, shady intrigue, and unrelenting rivalry. In the forefront are the geisha: some powerful and spiteful like the imperious Rikiji, some crude and obvious like the ... Read more

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  • The Concubine's Daughter

    A Novel

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    An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny.L otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away…When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a ... Read more

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  • The Last Empress

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    "Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation" ( Rocky Mountain News).During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala—or Empress Orchid—as readers came to know her in Anchee ... Read more

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  • Geisha

    A Life

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    A powerful and intimate memoir of a real-life geisha, Geisha, A Life reveals the hidden world of Kyoto’s traditional arts, Japanese tea ceremonies, and cultural secrets through the eyes of Japan’s most renowned and pioneering geisha.“No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so ... Read more

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