The Samurai's Secret
A Tale of Forbidden Love
by Rei Kimura
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Pub Date Mar 15 2024 | Archive Date Aug 21 2024
Riverdale Avenue Books | Magnus Lit
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Description
Can a Japanese samurai of impeccable lineage in Edo period Japan get away with being gay?
Can he break all the rules of society and get away with it?
It all started when an aging samurai took an eccentric interest in a teenage peasant boy who had the unusual gift of writing. One day he brought his son, Lord Okimoto to the peasant’s house. Immediately when their gazes met, the samurai’s son and the teenage peasant, a forbidden love affair formed, an affair which broke all the rules of Japan’s Edo period society and a feudal class so sharply defined that it could cut like a knife.
Four centuries later, an ancestor of Lord Okimoto finds a diary written by his peasant lover unfolding the anguished tale of a forbidden life went wrong, leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, shattered dreams and destroyed lives.
The tale of the gay samurai who put duty and obligations above his poignant love travels one whole circle to arrive to the 21st century in a final twist to this intriguing story of how two young men dared to break all the rules in conservative unforgiving 18th century Japan.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781626016743 |
PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 248 |