My Name Is Sei Shonagon

Zusatztext

<p>Who is Sei Shonagon? The tenth-century author of<i>The Pillow Book</i>? A woman of mixed-race parentage, surviving life in modern Japan? Or a voice from behind a screen, reaching across centuries, linking them both?</p><p>Just off a fashionable street in the upbeat heart of contemporary Tokyo, lies a fragment of another age - an old incense shop. Above it, in a room furnished with nothing but a simple paper screen, guests come to speak with the woman known as 'Sei Shonagon', hoping to find answers to the mysteries of their own bizarre lives.</p><p>'Sei Shonagon' seeks out beauty where she can find it - whether in her memories, or in traditional Japanese culture. As she grows older, the need to understand what she sees around her becomes a personal odyssey that affects the lives of everyone she encounters.</p>

Autorenportrait

Born in Australia, Jan Blensdorf has lived and worked abroad for many years, and is now based in England.<i>My Name is Sei Shonagon</i>grew out of two years she spent in Tokyo. This is her first novel.

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