検索キーワード： "Lesley Downer" 文学・フィクション

Japan am Ende des Bürgerkriegs: Die schöne, leidenschaftliche Yuri muss erkennen, dass das alte Japan untergeht, die strengen, alten Gesetze nicht mehr gelten. Sie und die Männer, die sie lieben, müssen sich in dieser neuen Welt zurechtfinden. Dabei birgt Yuri das Geheimnis ihrer Abstammung, das alles zerstören kann, was sie sich aufgebaut hat...

Growing up in rural Japan in 1861, Sachi has always felt different, her pale skin setting her apart. When she is 11, a princess passes through her village, sweeping her off to the women's palace in Edo, home to 3000 women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi is chosen as his concubine. But Japan is changing.

Hana is 17 when her husband goes to war. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees to the Yoshiwara, Tokyo's pleasure quarter, where she becomes a courtesan. Yozo returns to Japan to discover that the world he left behind has been destroyed. Travelling north to join his rebel comrades, he is captured but escapes making his way south-to the Yoshiwara. There the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan.