Katherine Govier
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 Printmakerâ€™sDaughter ,Â delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the worldâ€™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 Chevalierâ€™s ,Girlwith a Pearl Earring,, Lisa Seeâ€™s ,SnowFlower and the Secret Fan,, and David Mitchellâ€™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.
Historical,Historical Fiction,Fiction,Cultural,Japan,Art,Cultural,Asia,Historical,Literature,19th Century,Literature,Asian Literature,Fantasy,Adult
The Printmaker's Daughter