The Printmaker's Daughter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780062000361)

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, The Printmaker'sDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale 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 willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevalier's Girlwith a Pearl Earring, Lisa See's SnowFlower 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 captivatingbackdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, artand authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.

Author: Katherine Govier
ISBN-10: 0062000365
ISBN-13: 9780062000361
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2011
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 1.24d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011
Library Journal 11/01/2011 pg. 71
Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 31