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The Commoner.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 25-FEB-08

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In 1959, the Crown Prince of Japan broke with centuries of tradition by taking a commoner as his wife. Schwartz's novel imagines the perspective of the bride, who gives up "the jumbled, striving, visceral world" for a life of airless ritual. Surrounded by viper-tongued ladies-in-waiting appointed by her disapproving...

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