Lesley Downer (4 knihy)

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  Lesley Downer Madame Sadayako EN

  At twenty-nine, she captivated the world`s stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London. Picasso painted her. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japan`s most notorious geisha—and its first international superstar. In…

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  Lesley Downer The Courtesan and the Samurai EN

  1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love... Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters. There she is forced to become a courtesan. Yozo, brave, loyal and a brilliant…

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  Lesley Downer The Mindful Kitchen

  In Lesley Downer’s kitchen, she incorporates a Zen philosophy to the preparation and presentation of food; respect for nature and living things, and a reconnection to our heritage and traditions...

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  Lesley Downer The Samurai's Daughter EN

  In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a modern country with rickshaws, railways and schools for girls. Commoners can marry their children into any class, and the old hatred between north and south is over - or so it seems. Taka is from the powerful…

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