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The Book of Loss takes the reader on an ambitious journey deep into the psyche of a group of women and their social environment of 10th century Japan. It is a world of emotional intensity and paucity of freedom. The court of the Emperor where the mysterious narrator and her rival Izumi live is tightly bound with complex social rules. The hierarchy is extreme, and despite their own relative high ranks, in the presence of the Empress they are nothing. It is a society of hypocrisy in which men and women may be separated by a curtain in public in order to maintain their modesty, and yet extramarital affairs are commonplace. Despite the apparent sexual liberalism, to be a woman shamed is to be worthless, nameless, and to risk exile. At the start of the novel the greatest scandal imaginable has taken place. Kanesuke, the narrator's lover (also lover of Izumi) has seduced the Virgin of Ise - one of the Emperor's daughters - and he has been exiled. The narrator's sense of loss is unbearable, her love is all consuming, and now it will push her to extremes of rivalry.
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Set in the perfectly realized world of imperial tenth-century Japan, The Book of Loss is a gripping novel of sexual jealousy at court.
A renowned storyteller and lady-in-waiting to the Empress, the narrator is locked in a bitter rivalry with another woman for the love of a banished nobleman. Forced to observe the complex rules and social hierarchies of court life, she finds herself caught in a trap of her own making. Her machinations reach such a pitch that they threaten to undermine the rule of the Emperor himself. She records her plight, and her acidulous observations of courtly life, in her diary. Her voice is unforgettable—both foreign and utterly modern. Her sense of loss is unbearable, her love is all-consuming, and it will push her to the extremes of rivalry.
Offering the intimate seductions and betrayals of Dangerous Liaisons and The Memoirs of a Geisha, The Book of Loss takes the reader into the farthest reaches of desire, where passion rules and jealousy leads to unthinkable acts.
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A renowned storyteller and lady-in-waiting to the Empress, the narrator is locked in a bitter rivalry with another woman for the love of a banished nobleman. Forced to observe the complex rules and social hierarchies of court life, she finds herself caught in a trap of her own making. Her machinations reach such a pitch that they threaten to undermine the rule of the Emperor himself. She records her plight, and her acidulous observations of courtly life, in her diary. Her voice is unforgettable—both foreign and utterly modern. Her sense of loss is unbearable, her love is all-consuming, and it will push her to the extremes of rivalry.
Offering the intimate seductions and betrayals of Dangerous Liaisons and The Memoirs of a Geisha, The Book of Loss takes the reader into the farthest reaches of desire, where passion rules and jealousy leads to unthinkable acts.
Born in Boulder, Colorado, Julith Jedamus now lives in Richmond, Surrey with her husband and son. This is her first book.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0297847732
- ISBN 13 9780297847731
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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