01736cam a2200301 a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003000062040005900092100003700151245005400188250001900242260003900261300002400300336002100324337002500345338002300370500002400393520081700417521001001234541004801244546001201292650003001304650002701334651003601361655002401397655001301421OSt20250910092420.0070411s2008    nyu           000 1 eng    a9781400096053 [paperback]  aUniversity of Cebu-BaniladcUniversity of Cebu-Banilad1 aSchwartz, John Burnham.eauthor.14aThe commoner :ba novel /cJohn Burnham Schwartz.  aFirst edition.  aNew York :bVintage Books,cc2008.  a351 pages ;c22 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aNational bestseller  aIn this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy.

When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, and controlled at every turn as she tries to navigate this mysterious, hermetic world, suffering a nervous breakdown after finally giving birth to a son. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with tragic consequences. Based on extensive research, The Commoner is a stunning novel about a brutally rarified and controlled existence, and the complex relationship between two isolated women who are truly understood only by each other.  aAdult  xLauron, RodelloyGeneral EducationzFiction  aEnglish 0aNobilityzJapanvFiction. 0aWomenzJapanvFiction. 0aJapanxHistoryy1945-vFiction. 7aHistorical fiction. 7aFiction.