by Lesley Downer · Corgi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552155205
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«The Last Concubine» is the historical novel by Lesley Downer, published by Corgi in paperback (624 pages, in English).
Japan, 1865. In the women's palace of Edo, where three thousand women and a single man live, Sachi is chosen at fifteen as concubine to the young shogun. Civil war forces her to flee, and a rebel warrior rescues her. An unexpected bond grows between them, but before she can imagine a future with him, Sachi must unravel the secret of her origins.
Second novel in the «The Shogun Quartet» series, originally published in 2008. The author, a specialist in Japanese culture, also wrote «Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World».
For readers of historical fiction and romance about nineteenth-century Japan and geisha culture.
