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A woman of pleasure : a novel / Kiyoko Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

Murata, Kiyoko, 1945- (author.). Hingley, Susan Momoko, (narrator.). Carpenter, Juliet Winters, (translator.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781666655346
  • ISBN: 1666655341
  • Physical Description: 7 audio discs (approximately 453 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Holland, Ohio : Dreamscape Media, [2024]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact disc.
Unabridged.
Title from container.
PDF on disc 7.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Susan Momoko Hingley.
Summary, etc.:
In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi 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. By banding together, the women organize a strike and walk away from the brothel and into the possibility of new lives. 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.

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