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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Woman of Pleasure

A Woman of Pleasure

Murata, Kiyoko
Carpenter, Juliet Winters

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1640095799
ISBN13: 9781640095793
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike

In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi and the others to think clearly and express themselves. By banding together, the women organize a strike and walk away from the brothel and into the possibility of new lives.

Based on real-life events in Meiji-era Japan, award-winning and critically acclaimed veteran writer Kiyoko Murata re-creates in stunning detail the brutal yet vibrant lives of women in the red-light district at the turn of the twentieth century--the bond they share, the survival skills they pass down, and the power of owning one's language.

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