The Courtesan and the Samurai
Published
January 2010
Publishers
UK
Transworld
Brazil
Editora Record
Bulgaria
Prozorets
Bulgaria
Prozorets
Czech Republic
Euromedia
Germany
Bertelsmann
Hungary
Victoria
Indonesia
Penerbit
Italy
Piemme
Macedonia
Prosvetno Delo
Norway
Cappelen Damm
Poland
Sonia Draga
Romania
Humanitas
Russia
AST
Serbia
Alnari
Slovakia
Ikar
Spain
Seix Barral
Sweden
Damm
The Netherlands
Meulenhoff Boekerij
It is 1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love.
Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and very vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees for her life across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure quarter. There she is forced to train as a courtesan.
Yozo, a traveller, adventurer and brilliant swordsman, returns to Japan after four years in the Victorian West to discover that the world he left behind him has been destroyed. He travels north to join his rebel comrades, but is captured during their final battle. Escaping, he makes his way south to the only place where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara.
There in the Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and jesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan.
But each has a secret so terrible that, once revealed, it will threaten their very lives.
Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and very vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees for her life across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure quarter. There she is forced to train as a courtesan.
Yozo, a traveller, adventurer and brilliant swordsman, returns to Japan after four years in the Victorian West to discover that the world he left behind him has been destroyed. He travels north to join his rebel comrades, but is captured during their final battle. Escaping, he makes his way south to the only place where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara.
There in the Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and jesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan.
But each has a secret so terrible that, once revealed, it will threaten their very lives.
