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"A delicate, elegiac tale, intensely moving and utterly convincing." --The New York Times Book Review
"A mesmerizing novel full of tenderness and compassion, one that convincingly invests the Japanese empress's voice with all the nuance it demands." --The Washington Post
"Schwartz leaps with prodigious skill. . . . Through painstaking research and a humane sensibility, he has opened a window on a strange, cloistered world." --The Wall Street Journal
"Expertly evokes the sense of powerlessness and isolation that mark both royal life and bad marriages. . . . An artful meditation on the limits of love and duty." --People
"A unique literary adventure, intimate, exotic; wonderfully imagined and achieved. The narrative impels the reader from first to last, immersing us in its flow of ancient acceptances and new demands. Splendid." --Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire
"A fascinating and moving book in which great harm--all the more painful for being quiet and impersonal--befalls characters who, with one exception, are entirely innocent and sympathetic. The Commoner is a rare novel, wonderfully researched and beautifully written." --Peter Matthiessen
"Schwartz pulls off a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
John Burnham Schwartz is the author of the novels Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days, and Reservation Road, which was made into a motion picture based on his screenplay, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Connelly. His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages and his writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and Vogue. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1400096057
- ISBN 13 9781400096053
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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