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A lady-in-waiting to a tenth-century Japanese empress engages in a bitter rivalry with another lady-in-waiting for the love of a banished nobleman, in a diary account in which she records the complex social and hierarchical structures of court life. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
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It's heady stuff, but for all the novel's exoticism, what gives it its edge is Jedamus's modern psychological acuity. (Hephzibah Anderson OBSERVER (20.3.05))
This is a careful tale of jealousy and recenge...jedamus brings tenth-century Japan to life with this diary centring on palace life. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.4.05))
This is a story skillfully told and is one of the most beautiful I have read in a long while...Once you have read the story, you will want to keep dipping in for the sheer beauty of the words and observations on emotions that touch us all. (YORKSHIRE GAZETTE & HERALD)
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This is a careful tale of jealousy and recenge...jedamus brings tenth-century Japan to life with this diary centring on palace life. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.4.05))
This is a story skillfully told and is one of the most beautiful I have read in a long while...Once you have read the story, you will want to keep dipping in for the sheer beauty of the words and observations on emotions that touch us all. (YORKSHIRE GAZETTE & HERALD)
Gripping novel of sexual jealousy set in the perfectly realised world of imperial 10th century Japan.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0312349076
- ISBN 13 9780312349073
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages295
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