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The Printmaker's Daughter

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The Printmaker's Daughter

A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place in history in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimed author Katherine Govier. In the evocative tale of 19th-century Tokyo, THE PRINTMAKER'S DAUGHTER delivers an enthralling tale of one of the world’s great unknown artists: Oei, the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. 

In a novel that will resonate with readers of Tracy Chevalier’s GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, Lisa See’s SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN and David Mitchell’s THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, the sights and sensations of an exotic, bygone era form the richly captivating backdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, art and authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.

The Printmaker's Daughter
by Katherine Govier

  • Publication Date: November 22, 2011
  • Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • ISBN-10: 0062000365
  • ISBN-13: 9780062000361