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4519590The Printmakers Daughterhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-printmakers-daughter-9780062100689/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/472364/454c76b0-39bc-4f6c-a67f-667766b4ff87.jpg?v=638663460058770000203231MXNHarperCollinsInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A compulsively readable novel about one of the worlds great unknown artists, who lived under her fathers shadow in the city that would become Tokyo (<em>The Globe and Mail</em>).</strong></p><p>Oei is the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, most famed for his <em>Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji</em>. Recounting the story of her life, she plunges us into the colorful world of Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live among writers, novelists, tattoo artists, and prostitutes, evading the spies of the repressive shogunate as they work on Hokusais countless paintings and prints. Wielding her brush, rejecting domesticity in favor of dedication to the arts, Oei defies all expectations of womanhoodall but one. A dutiful daughter to the last, she will obey the will of her eccentric father, the man who created her and who, ultimately, will rob her of her place in history.</p><p>From the hothouse ferment of art studios, bordellos, and Kabuki theater to the tonic countryside, Goviers spectacularly detailed, eventful, and emotionally stormy novel is populated by vivid characters and charged with searing insights into Japanese history and the diabolically difficult lives of women and artists. <em>Booklist</em> (starred review)</p><p>Lavishly researched and brilliant. . . . Govier astonishes throughout in her ability to write epic themes intimately, particularly in the lyrical, absorbing, and intense final hundred pages. <em>Publishers Weekly</em> (starred review)</p><p><em>Published in Canada under the title</em> The Ghost Brush</p>...837498The Printmakers Daughter203231https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-printmakers-daughter-9780062100689/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/472364/454c76b0-39bc-4f6c-a67f-667766b4ff87.jpg?v=638663460058770000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780062100689_W3siaWQiOiIyOGJkMDYwMi00OTUxLTQzYzQtOWVmYy04NTliNTdjZTJjYmIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMTVUMTk6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780062100689_<p>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, <em>The PrintmakersDaughter</em> delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the worlds great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the <em>Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.</em> In a novel that willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevaliers <em>Girlwith a Pearl Earring</em>, Lisa Sees <em>SnowFlower and the Secret Fan</em>, and David Mitchells <em>The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet</em>,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.</p>...(*_*)9780062100689_<p><strong>A compulsively readable novel about one of the worlds great unknown artists, who lived under her fathers shadow in the city that would become Tokyo (<em>The Globe and Mail</em>).</strong></p><p>Oei is the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, most famed for his <em>Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji</em>. Recounting the story of her life, she plunges us into the colorful world of Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live among writers, novelists, tattoo artists, and prostitutes, evading the spies of the repressive shogunate as they work on Hokusais countless paintings and prints. Wielding her brush, rejecting domesticity in favor of dedication to the arts, Oei defies all expectations of womanhoodall but one. A dutiful daughter to the last, she will obey the will of her eccentric father, the man who created her and who, ultimately, will rob her of her place in history.</p><p>From the hothouse ferment of art studios, bordellos, and Kabuki theater to the tonic countryside, Goviers spectacularly detailed, eventful, and emotionally stormy novel is populated by vivid characters and charged with searing insights into Japanese history and the diabolically difficult lives of women and artists. <em>Booklist</em> (starred review)</p><p>Lavishly researched and brilliant. . . . Govier astonishes throughout in her ability to write epic themes intimately, particularly in the lyrical, absorbing, and intense final hundred pages. <em>Publishers Weekly</em> (starred review)</p><p><em>Published in Canada under the title</em> The Ghost Brush</p>...9780062100689_HarperCollinslibro_electonico_9780062100689_9780062100689Katherine GovierInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-ea28b49b-491f-45e2-b8d7-3c8f12b22481.epub2011-11-22T00:00:00+00:00HarperCollins