The Printmaker's Daughter: An Intimate Historical Fiction â The Hidden Life of Hokusai's Daughter in 19th Century Japan

Govier, Katherine

ISBN 10: 0062000365 / ISBN 13: 9780062000361

Published by Harper Perennial, 2011

About this Item

This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Seller Inventory # DBV.0062000365.A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Printmaker's Daughter: An Intimate Historical Fiction â The Hidden Life of Hokusai's Daughter in 19th Century Japan
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062000365
• ISBN 13: 9780062000361
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’sDaughter  delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the world’s great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In a novel that willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevalier’s Girlwith a Pearl Earring, Lisa See’s SnowFlower and the Secret Fan, and David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,the sights and sensations of an exotic, bygone era form the richly captivatingbackdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, artand authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.

About the Author

Katherine Govier’s most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, was published in the United States as The Printmaker’s Daughter, and in translation in Romania, Spain, Quebec, and Japan. Her novel Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has won the Marian Engel Award and the Toronto Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the Trillium Book Award. The author of twelve previous books, Katherine Govier divides her time between Toronto, Ontario, and Canmore, Alberta.