The commoner : a novel / John Burnham Schwartz.
The novel's narrator is Haruko, Empress of Japan. In 1959, at the age of twenty-four, she marries the Crown Prince, becoming the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, most hermetically sealed-off and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, controlled at every turn, Haruko suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her voice. Yet she recovers and perseveres, holding tight to the self that the imperial bureaucrats would see crushed. When thirty years later, now Empress herself, Haruko plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman - Keiko, a rising star in the foreign ministry to accept the marriage proposal of her son, the Crown Prince, the consequences are tragic and dramatic.
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- ISBN: 0385515715
- ISBN: 9780385515719
- Physical Description: 351 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese, 2008.
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| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Schwartz (Text) | 31010000231201 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Hudson (Fontana) | F SCHWARTZ (Text) | 39493106020177 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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