| Author |
Murata, Kiyoko, 1945- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Yu⁺ѕjoko⁺ѕ. English
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| Title |
A Woman of Pleasure [electronic resource] / Kiyoko Murata. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Publication Info. |
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, 2024.
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Made available through hoopla
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| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 33 min.)) : digital. |
| Content Type |
spoken word |
| Media Type |
computer |
| Carrier Type |
online resource |
| Sound Characteristics |
digital digital recording |
| Digital File Characteristics |
data file |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Susan Momoko Hingley. |
| Summary |
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 prot©♭g©♭e 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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