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Het Shogun KwartetReeks

Deze serie transporteert lezers naar een nauwgezet onderzocht feodaal Japan, vol politieke intriges en persoonlijke offers. Volg de reizen van moedige vrouwen die door verraderlijke landschappen navigeren, buitenlandse indringers en verborgen geheimen onder ogen zien. De verhalen verweven draden van verboden romantiek, onwrikbare loyaliteit en de zoektocht naar overleving. Bereid u voor om geboeid te worden door epische verhalen over eer, verraad en de strijd voor het vaderland.

The shogun's queen
The Last Concubine
The Samurai's Daughter
De courtisane en de samoerai

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    The shogun's queen

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    • 20 uur lezen
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    Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . . Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu has - like all the clan's women - been encouraged to be bold, taught to wield the halberd, and to ride a horse. But when she is just seventeen, four black ships appear. Bristling with cannon and manned by strangers who to the Japanese eyes are barbarians, their appearance threatens Japan's very existence. And turns Okatsu's world upside down. Chosen by her feudal lord, she has been given a very special role to play. Given a new name - Princess Atsu - and a new destiny, she is the only one who can save the realm. Her journey takes her to Edo Castle, a place so secret that it cannot be marked on any map. There, sequestered in the Women's Palace - home to three thousand women, and where only one man may enter: the shogun - she seems doomed to live out her days. But beneath the palace's immaculate facade, there are whispers of murders and ghosts. It is here that Atsu must complete her mission and discover one last secret - the secret of the man whose fate is irrevocably linked to hers: the shogun himself . . .

    The shogun's queen
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    The Last Concubine

    • 480bladzijden
    • 17 uur lezen
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    Sachi is an ordinary girl growing up in rural Japan. Yet she has always felt different, her pale skin and fine features setting her apart from her friends and family. She does not know that her life is about to change, and that she will soon be taken to the Women's Palace in Edo where courtly etiquette and ancient ritual dominate - and where she will be chosen as the concubine of the young ruler, the shogun. But Japan is changing. The Black Ships from the West have come bearing foreigners eager for trade and riches. As civil war erupts, Sachi and her loyal friend Taki flee for their lives across a war-torn land. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she falls passionately in love. But before they can create a life together, Sachi must discover the dark secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it now threatens to destroy her.

    The Last Concubine
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    De courtisane en de samoerai

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    Japan, 1868. Wanneer de echtgenoot van de zeventienjarige Hana het leger in gaat, blijft zij alleen achter. Al snel wordt haar huis geplunderd door vijandige soldaten en moet ze vluchten voor haar leven. Ze vindt uiteindelijk onderdak in de beruchte rosse buurt van Tokyo, waar zij als prostituee het hoofd boven water moet zien te houden. In deze grimmige omgeving wordt ze verliefd op Yozo, een avonturier en briljant zwaardvechter, die zich als ontsnapte krijgsgevangene schuilhoudt voor de autoriteiten. Maar beiden verbergen een geheim dat zo verschrikkelijk is dat het hun leven in gevaar kan brengen…

    De courtisane en de samoerai
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    The Samurai's Daughter

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    In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; But Nobu will have to fight and maybe kill Taka's father and brother, while Taka now has to make a terrible choice - between her family and the man she loves ...

    The Samurai's Daughter