Printmaker's Daughter e-bog
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A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The PrintmakersDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the worlds great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, paint...
E-bog
78,54 DKK
Forlag
Harper Perennial
Udgivet
22 november 2011
Længde
512 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062100689
A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The PrintmakersDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the worlds great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In a novel that willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevaliers Girlwith a Pearl Earring, Lisa Sees SnowFlower and the Secret Fan, and David Mitchells The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,the sights and sensations of an exotic, bygone era form the richly captivatingbackdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, artand authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.