Title:
The Last Concubine
Author:Lesley Downer
Reviewer:Stacey Bissell
Summary:A well-researched and beautifully written journey into the last years of imperial Japan. Although the story itself is fictional, the setting is real and carefully reproduced.
A well-researched and beautifully written journey into the last years of imperial Japan. Although the story itself is fictional, the setting is real and carefully reproduced. Follow Sachi through tumultuous years as worlds keep colliding around her—peasant and princess, imperial concubine and rogue shogun, Japanese culture and the West.