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A woman of pleasure : a novel / Kiyoko Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781640095793
- ISBN: 1640095799
- Physical Description: 309 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in the Japanese language as YUJOKO by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., in Tokyo in 2013"--Title page verso. Includes translator's note on pages 304-309. |
| Summary, etc.: | "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi and the others to think clearly and express themselves. Based on real-life events in Meiji-era Japan, award-winning and critically acclaimed veteran writer Kiyoko Murata re-creates in stunning detail the brutal yet vibrant lives of women in the red-light district at the turn of the twentieth century-the bond they share, the survival skills they pass down, and the power of owning one's language. By banding together, the women organize a strike and walk away from the brothel and into the possibility of new lives"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language Note: | Translated from Japanese to English. |
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| Subject: | Japan > History > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Fiction. Courtesans > Japan > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | Fiction Murata (Text) | 31307025780117 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Ottawa Hills | Fiction Murata (Text) | 31307025780109 | Fiction | Available | - |
