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A Woman of Pleasure

A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781640095793

Author(s): Kiyoko Murata

Subjects: FBA, Fiction

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Counterpoint

Publication Date: 27-02-2024

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£16.99

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About the book

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 protegee 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 organise a strike and walk away from the brothel and into the possibility of new lives.

A Woman of Pleasure

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