MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01686cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2008023674
003 DLC
005 20090803103148.0
008 080530s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2008023674
015 $aGBA8D6118$2bnb
016 7 $a014844522$2Uk
020 $a9780061662379 (trade pbk.)
020 $a0061662372 (trade pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)229749908
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dOCLCG$dUKM$dC#P$dJAO$dZQP$dDLC
043 $aa-ja---
050 00 $aPR9499.3.L43$bS34 2009
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aLebra-Chapman, Joyce,$d1925-
245 14 $aThe scent of sake /$cJoyce Lebra.
250 $a1st Avon pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAvon,$c2009.
300 $ax, 366 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aIncludes notes to readers and Readers' Clubs questions.
520 $aThe sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, nineteen-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that in nineteenth-century Japan, a woman must "kill the self" or her life will be too difficult to bear. In this strict, male-dominated society, women may not even enter the brewery--and repressive tradition demands that Rie turn over her family's business to the inept philanderer she's been forced to marry. She is even expected to raise her husband's children by another woman--a geisha--so that they can eventually run the Omura enterprise. But Rie's pride will not allow her to relinquish what is rightfully hers.
650 0 $aRice wines$zJapan$xHistory$vFiction.
650 0 $aRice wines industry$zJapan$xHistory$vFiction.
651 0 $aJapan$xHistory$y19th century$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd