Shogun Quartet #01: The Shogun's Queen

Shogun Quartet #01: The Shogun's Queen
Lesley Downer
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 400pg
3 Nov 2016 UK
9780593066867
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Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself ...Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu has - like all the clan's women - been encouraged to be bold, taught to wield the halberd, and to ride a horse. But when she is just seventeen, four black ships appear. Bristling with cannon and manned by strangers who to the Japanese eyes are barbarians, their appearance threatens Japan's very existence. And turns Okatsu's world upside down. Chosen by her feudal lord, she has been given a very special role to play. Given a new name - Princess Atsu - and a new destiny, she is the only one who can save the realm. Her journey takes her to Edo Castle, a place so secret that it cannot be marked on any map. There, sequestered in the Women's Palace - home to three thousand women, and where only one man may enter: the shogun - she seems doomed to live out her days. But beneath the palace's immaculate facade, there are whispers of murders and ghosts.It is here that Atsu must complete her mission and discover one last secret - the secret of the man whose fate is irrevocably linked to hers: the shogun himself...

"It is completely absorbing, showing Lesley Downer's deep knowledge of Japan and her mastery of its complex history during the nineteenth century." -- LIAN HEARN, author of Across the Nightingale Floor "What a wonderful storyteller Lesley Downer is, and what an amazing story she tells in The Shogun's Queen. Set at a pivotal moment in Japan's history, her novel effortlessly transported me to nineteenth century Japan. At its heart is Okatsu, Downer's heroine for all seasons, plus a vivid cast of characters - some loyal, some treacherous - all caught up in the turbulent politics of the time. I was only sorry to reach the end of this gripping and deeply suspenseful novel." -- MARGOT LIVESEY, author of The House on Fortune Street
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 History of a Vanishing World, and Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West, and has presented television programmes on Japan for Channel 4, the BBC and NHK. She lives in London with her husband, the author Arthur I. Miller, and still makes sure she goes to Japan every year.
Status: Out of Print
ISBN-13: 9780593066867
Published: 3 Nov 2016
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bantam Press
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 400
Dewey: 823.92

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