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The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro
by Alison Fell
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A sexually frustrated concubine in 11th century Japan finds fulfillment via the erotic stories whispered to her (while she makes love with the married General she serves) by a blind stableboy whom she hides behind the bed. This novel, meant to be a translation of an erotic novel of the period, includes cameo appearances by Sei Shonogon and Lady Murasaki, as well as clever and convincing haiku by the heroine and her friends, a circle of women poets.
Available editions of The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro
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9780151001866,
Hardcover,
Harcourt,
1996
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9780156004688,
Paperback,
Harvest Books,
1997
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Publisher Notes
This clever bit of literary mischief is an "exquisite, exuberant, X-rated" ("Mirabella") novel about an imaginary eleventh-century Japanese writer. Onogoro, poet and concubine of the general Motosuke, hides a stable boy behind the screen at the head of her bed to spice up her love life with her master.
Media Reviews
"An inventive and charming quantum leap into new fictional territory from the Scottish poet and novelist...Angela Carter would have loved this wondrous fever dream of a novel--an R-rated, Orientalist 'Arabian Nights'. It's a stunning performance."
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