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Japan - Madame Chrysanthemum (Madam Chrysanthemum)
Japan Madame Chrysanthemum - Madam Chrysanthemum Author:LOTI This book is the first Western romance to be set in Japan and ushered in the vogue for all things Japanese. It also inspired Puccini´s opera Madame Butterfly. The novel is autobiographical and tells the story of a French lieutenant and his geisha in the 1880s in Japan, when it was becoming westernised. It is a compelling portrait of a vanished a... more »ge and the bittersweet meeting of East and West.« less