Stranger in the Shoguns City: A Womans Life in NineteenthCentury Japan

Stranger in the Shoguns City: A Womans Life in NineteenthCentury Japan

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Stranger in the Shoguns City: A Womans Life in NineteenthCentury Japan

Stranger in the Shoguns City: A Womans Life in NineteenthCentury Japan

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SKU: DADAX1784708135
ISBN: 9781784708139
Publisher: Vintage
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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 changeCompelling... Deeply absorbing GuardianThe daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japans snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mothers. Instead after three divorces and with a temperament much too strongwilled for her familys approval she ran away to follow her own path in Edo, the city we now call Tokyo.Stranger in the Shoguns City is a rare, captivating portrait of one woman as she endeavours to recreate herself and her life, and provides a window into the drama and excitement of Japan at a pivotal moment in history.Marvellous... Stanley builds up a picture of Tsunenos world, immersing us in an experience akin to time travel TLS* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 2020 ** Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2021 ** Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography *

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