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The commoner

Hardcover • 2008 • English • 1. edition

The commoner

By John Burnham Schwartz

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The novel's narrator is Haruko, Empress of Japan. In 1959, at the age of twenty-four, she marries the Crown Prince, becoming the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, most hermetically sealed-off and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, controlled at every turn, Haruko suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her voice. Yet she recovers and perseveres, holding tight to the self that the imperial bureaucrats would see c...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780385515719

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2008

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The commoner

Format

Hardcover

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