Title: The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Subtitle: A Novel
Description: A breathless adventure based on the real life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned Japanese spy Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone – least of all a man – and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear... Based on the real-life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a world war.
Subjects: Literature, Fiction, Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, History, Princesses, Women spies, Fiction, biographical, China, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, historical, general, Japan, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, general, Young women, fiction, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Marriage, fiction