En savoir plus sur le livre
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su, makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone - least of all a man - and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear ... Based on the real-life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a world war.
Achat du livre
The private papers of Eastern Jewel, Maureen author Lindley
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2009
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (souple)
Modes de paiement
Il manque plus que ton avis ici.
- Titre
- The private papers of Eastern Jewel
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Maureen author Lindley
- Éditeur
- Bloomsbury
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0747596263
- ISBN13
- 9780747596264
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans historiques, Femmes, Politique, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Sexualité et intimité, Japon, Asie, Chine, Littérature asiatique, Empereurs, Tokyo, Shanghai
- Titre original
- The private papers of eastern jewel
- Évaluation
- 3,45 sur 5
- Description
- Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su, makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone - least of all a man - and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear ... Based on the real-life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a world war.