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A Woman of Pleasure - Kiyoko Murata

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A Woman of Pleasure - Kiyoko MurataIn het jaar 1903 wordt de 15 jaar oude Aoi Ichi verkocht aan een bordeel in Kumamoto. Daar wordt ze de protg van Shinonome, de hoogst geplaatste courtisane die haar de skills entecnieken leert om een oiran te worden. Maar haar leergierigheid rijkt verder dan de kunst van het verleiden en terwijl ze leert lezen en schrijven ontwikkelt ze een stem die weigert zich te onderwerpen aan de rigide hirarchie binnen het bordeel. Binnen de beperkte wereld van

In het jaar 1903 wordt de 15-jaar oude Aoi Ichi verkocht aan een bordeel in Kumamoto. Daar wordt ze de protégé van Shinonome, de hoogst geplaatste courtisane die haar de skills entecnieken leert om een oiran te worden.

Maar haar leergierigheid rijkt verder dan de kunst van het verleiden en terwijl ze leert lezen en schrijven ontwikkelt ze een stem die weigert zich te onderwerpen aan de rigide hiërarchie binnen het bordeel.

Binnen de beperkte wereld van het red-light district groeien de geruchten over stakingen van lokale arbeiders en Ichi en haar mede-courtisanen verenigen zich om hun bordeel op zijn knieën te krijgen.

Deze roman over de sterke band tussen vrouwen en de kracht daarvan is gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen.

Kiyoko Murata heeft al meerdere prestigieuze literatuurprijzen in Japan in de wacht gesleept, waaronder de Akutagawa literatuurprijs. Haar roman Nabe no Naka is in 1991 verfilmd onder de naam Rhapsody in August door Akira Kurosawa.  A Women of Pleasure is haar eerste roman die in het Engels is vertaald. Murata woont in Fukuoka.

De vertaler van deze roman is Juliet Winters Carpenter, zeer gewaardeerd om haar vertalingen van Japanse romans. Ze woont in de staat Washington.

Bijzonderheden:
taal: Engels
pagina's: 309
uitgave: paperback


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