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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9781400096053
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400096057
ISBN-13
9781400096053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66848113
Product Key Features
Book Title
Commoner : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Political, Romance / General, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A delicate, elegiac tale, intensely moving and utterly convincing." -- The New York Times Book Review "A mesmerizing novel full of tenderness and compassion, one that convincingly invests the Japanese empress's voice with all the nuance it demands." -- The Washington Post "Schwartz leaps with prodigious skill. . . . Through painstaking research and a humane sensibility, he has opened a window on a strange, cloistered world." -- The Wall Street Journal "Expertly evokes the sense of powerlessness and isolation that mark both royal life and bad marriages. . . . An artful meditation on the limits of love and duty." -- People "A unique literary adventure, intimate, exotic; wonderfully imagined and achieved. The narrative impels the reader from first to last, immersing us in its flow of ancient acceptances and new demands. Splendid." --Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire "A fascinating and moving book in which great harm--all the more painful for being quiet and impersonal--befalls characters who, with one exception, are entirely innocent and sympathetic. The Commoner is a rare novel, wonderfully researched and beautifully written." --Peter Matthiessen "Schwartz pulls off a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "A delicate, elegiac tale, intensely moving and utterly convincing." -The New York Times Book Review "A mesmerizing novel full of tenderness and compassion, one that convincingly invests the Japanese empress's voice with all the nuance it demands." -The Washington Post "Schwartz leaps with prodigious skill. . . . Through painstaking research and a humane sensibility, he has opened a window on a strange, cloistered world." -The Wall Street Journal "Expertly evokes the sense of powerlessness and isolation that mark both royal life and bad marriages. . . . An artful meditation on the limits of love and duty." -People "A unique literary adventure, intimate, exotic; wonderfully imagined and achieved. The narrative impels the reader from first to last, immersing us in its flow of ancient acceptances and new demands. Splendid." -Shirley Hazzard, author ofThe Transit of VenusandThe Great Fire "A fascinating and moving book in which great harm-all the more painful for being quiet and impersonal-befalls characters who, with one exception, are entirely innocent and sympathetic.The Commoneris a rare novel, wonderfully researched and beautifully written." -Peter Matthiessen "Schwartz pulls off a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world." -Publishers Weekly(starred review), "A unique literary adventure, intimate, exotic; wonderfully imagined and achieved. The narrative impels the reader from first to last, immersing us in its flow of ancient acceptances and new demands. Splendid." -Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire "A fascinating and moving book in which great harm-all the more painful for being quiet and impersonal-befalls characters who, with one exception, are entirely innocent and sympathetic. The Commoner is a rare novel, wonderfully researched and beautifully written." -Peter Matthiessen "Schwartz pulls off a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world." Publishers Weekly (starred review), "A delicate, elegiac tale, intensely moving and utterly convincing." The New York Times Book Review "A mesmerizing novel full of tenderness and compassion, one that convincingly invests the Japanese empress's voice with all the nuance it demands." The Washington Post "Schwartz leaps with prodigious skill. . . . Through painstaking research and a humane sensibility, he has opened a window on a strange, cloistered world." The Wall Street Journal "Expertly evokes the sense of powerlessness and isolation that mark both royal life and bad marriages. . . . An artful meditation on the limits of love and duty." People "A unique literary adventure, intimate, exotic; wonderfully imagined and achieved. The narrative impels the reader from first to last, immersing us in its flow of ancient acceptances and new demands. Splendid."Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire "A fascinating and moving book in which great harmall the more painful for being quiet and impersonalbefalls characters who, with one exception, are entirely innocent and sympathetic. The Commoner is a rare novel, wonderfully researched and beautifully written."Peter Matthiessen "Schwartz pulls off a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world." Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Synopsis
In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, and controlled at every turn as she tries to navigate this mysterious, hermetic world, suffering a nervous breakdown after finally giving birth to a son. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with tragic consequences. Based on extensive research, The Commoner is a stunning novel about a brutally rarified and controlled existence, and the complex relationship between two isolated women who are truly understood only by each other.
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