{"product_id":"the-courtesan-and-the-samurai","title":"The Courtesan and the Samurai","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapan, 1868: the last shogun has been defeated, the age of the emperors is\u003cbr\u003eabout to begin - and in Japan's frozen north a diehard band of loyalists\u003cbr\u003eplans a desperate last stand. Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes\u003cbr\u003eto war, leaving her alone and very vulnerable.When enemy soldiers attack\u003cbr\u003eher house she flees for her life across the shattered city of Tokyo and\u003cbr\u003etakes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure quarter.There she is\u003cbr\u003esold into a brothel and forced to train as a courtesan. Yozo, a traveller,\u003cbr\u003eadventurer and brilliant swordsman, returns to Japan after six years in the\u003cbr\u003eVictorian West to discover that the world he left behind him has been\u003cbr\u003edestroyed. Travelling north to join his rebel comrades, he is captured\u003cbr\u003eduring their final battle. Escaping, he makes his way south to the only\u003cbr\u003eplace where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara. There in\u003cbr\u003ethe Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and\u003cbr\u003ejesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan.But each has a\u003cbr\u003esecret so terrible that once revealed it will threaten not only their union\u003cbr\u003e- but their very lives ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lesley Downer\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bantam Press\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":47271845069081,"sku":"PR6104","price":6.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47271845101849,"sku":"PR6104","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47271845134617,"sku":"PR6104","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":47271845167385,"sku":"PR6104","price":3.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/products\/content_dd45c161-f40b-4e26-b9ee-80637d7ed219.jpg?v=1717704036","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/the-courtesan-and-the-samurai","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}