01869cam a2200349 a 4500 OSt 20250910092420.0 070411s2008 nyu 000 1 eng 9781400096053 [paperback] University of Cebu-Banilad University of Cebu-Banilad Schwartz, John Burnham. author. The commoner : a novel / John Burnham Schwartz. First edition. New York : Vintage Books, c2008. 351 pages ; 22 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier National bestseller In 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. Adult Lauron, Rodello General Education Fiction English Nobility Japan Fiction. Women Japan Fiction. Japan History 1945- Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. ddc BK adryann[new] 07/14/2025 13761 13761 0 0 ddc 0 0 UCBL_MAIN UCBL_MAIN FIC 2024-08-12 Donated by the Chancellor Ms Candice Gotianuy 0 F Sch95c 2008 3UCBL000028856 2025-07-14 2025-07-14 FIC