Stranger in the Shogun`s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, Stanley Amy

Автор: Stanley, Amy
Название: Stranger in the Shogun`s City
ISBN: 1784742317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784742317
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Описание: Thirty-seven-year-old piano teacher Camille Childs is a lost soul who is seeking recognition through her star student-so when her student unexpectedly leaves California to return to her village in Oaxaca, Mexico, Camille follows her. There, Camille meets Alejandro, a Zapotec man who helps her navigate the unfamiliar culture of Oaxaca and teaches her to view the world in a different light.

Автор: Stanley, Amy
Название: Stranger in the shogun`s city
ISBN: 1784742309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784742300
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Описание: ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 **A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous changeThe daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a life much like her mother's. But after three divorces - and with a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval - she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just before the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet, which would open Japan up to trade and diplomacy with the West for the first time.

During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai and eventually ends up in the service of a famous city magistrate. An extraordinary woman at an extraordinary time, Tsuneno's life provides a window into nineteenth-century Japanese culture - and a rare view of a woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, despite social conventions. Immersive and gripping, Stranger in the Shogun's City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered in beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city and a culture.

*A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*

Автор: Stanley, Amy
Название: Stranger in the Shogun`s City
ISBN: 1784708135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784708139
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Описание: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change`Compelling...

Автор: Stanley Amy
Название: Stranger in the Shogun`s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
ISBN: 1501188534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501188534
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Описание: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography*
*Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award*
*Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*

A "captivating" (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother's. But after three divorces--and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval--she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak.

With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry's fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno's life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture--and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions.

"A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy" (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun's City is "a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight" (National Review of Books).