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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.
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The private papers of Eastern Jewel, Maureen author Lindley
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- 2009
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- Título
- The private papers of Eastern Jewel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Maureen author Lindley
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Publicado en
- 2009
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0747596263
- ISBN13
- 9780747596264
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Mujeres, Política, Prosa bélica, Guerras, Sexualidad e intimidad, Japón, Asia, China, Ficción asiática, Emperadores, Tokio, Shanghái
- Título original
- The private papers of eastern jewel
- Calificación
- 3,45 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.