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Across A Bridge Of Dreams by Lesley Downer
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Based on the true story of the 'last samurai', Across a Bridge of Dreams is an epic tale of love and war, of a nation divided and a love that can never be. In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Un ...Show more
The Courtesan and the Samurai by Lesley Downer
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ...Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, i ...Show more
The Samurai's Daughter by Lesley Downer
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a modern country with rickshaws, railways and schools for girls. Commoners can marry their childre ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archit ...Show more
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