A Woman of Pleasure

Sigh, every time I go out of my comfort zone. This books reads like poetry; one must not get sidetracked though by its realities! That fathers/families in that time would place impossible burdens on daughters in the name of survival, one can only imagine. Selling daughters to pleasure quaters. Inasmuch......more

"Leaving meant stepping into hell, but staying was another kind of hell. Each woman had to decide for herself what hell to choose." What a book. This book had left me with all sorts of feelings. It made me sad, it made me angry and it made me laugh, bust most of all, it left me with a feeling of g......more

9Kiyoko Murata was an Akutagawa Prize winner and this is her first English debut and certainly a perfect debut, I will say because this book highlighted on women, its about women and for women even if the protagonist presented here is a child but she is a child that lived as a girl forced into prost......more

It is 1903. Aoi Ichi comes from the tiny island of Iojima, where her parents dive and fish for food, and her whole life revolves around the sea. She loves the sea turtles she sees swimming in the waters, and worships the seven-tail turtle sea god. Her parents sell her to a brothel in Kyushu at the a......more