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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Concubine]]></title>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">2</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Last Concubine</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lesley Downer]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Hasna Diana]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Last Concubine, yang dalam bahasa Indonesia berarti Selir Terakhir, adalah sebuah epic love-story, kisah cinta seorang gadis muda Jepang yang harus menerima takdirnya menjadi selir seorang shogun, bertepatan dengan peristiwa runtuhnya kekuasaan Keshogunan Tokugawa, pada tahun 1800-an. Membaca bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38773754">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 28 02:08:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking forward to reading this very much... well, maybe that´s because I was sooo disappointed. The story is just too unbelievable for me (compare it to the shock of the very first line of &quot;acknowledgements&quot; in Golden´s Memoirs of a Geisha!!!). How come the shogun chose her? I had...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69189730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46683606">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 17 16:33:37 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 18:23:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like and enjoy the book. It contained many complicated details of the Japanese culture and is woven in a beautiful story. I'd realized that some details probably was exaggerated but as a fiction it is a great one. <br/><br/>However, there are several things disturbed me. I was wondering the impo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46683606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46393871">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 02:29:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 24 10:19:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Japan is teetering on the edge of civil war, Sachi becomes concubine to the last shogun of  Edo (Tokyo) but her life is soon to change when the old ways are swept away forever. Sachi flees from the castle where she has lived a pampered life and finds herself on the run with her trusted friend ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46393871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45228408">
    <user id="1142827">
    <name><![CDATA[仔, 没有 你, 我是谁?]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 03 00:21:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 00:27:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[jujur aja, rada nyesel beli bukunya...mahal bener bo..<br/>awalnya tertarik beli karena tebelnya, trus ada bau2 jaman samurainya... *samurai addict ha ha*<br/>setelah dibaca, yah .. ternyata ceritanya tentang kehidupan selir-selir di &quot;harem&quot; .. even sang shogunnya ga muncul sebanyak yang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45228408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48296755">
    <user id="619633">
    <name><![CDATA[Barokah &quot;Uci&quot; Ruziati]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Depok, Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 01:10:16 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 25 18:15:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Paaaaanjang dan laaaaama,&quot; begitulah yang saya rasakan saat membaca buku ini. Jepang pada masa kekuasaan Shogun memang menarik untuk dijadikan cerita, dengan intrik-intrik 'gila' di istana perempuan, para samurai dan ronin yang gagah, serta prinsip-prinsip kehidupan yang mungkin sulit unt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48296755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39678907">
    <user id="153774">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 09 07:18:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 11 07:20:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still dive in to the deep of this book. Let me dive, and flying in the fresh water of this words of this book.<br/><br/>Ramuan kompleks sebuah labirin yang berbumbu intrik cinta, persaingan politik, perebutan kekuasan, kepahlawanan, nasionalisme yang boleh jadi polos, serta romantika psikologi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39678907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39168864">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ally]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 21:10:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 19:48:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku yang menceritakan sejarah Jepang selalu menarik perhatian saya. Kebanyakan dari lembaran – lembaran itu berisi kisah yang dituturkan melalui sudut pandang seorang pria. Bagaimana tingkah laku dan pola pikir seorang samurai menghadapi  perselisihan kecil ataupun pertempuran besar seperti peran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39168864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37782532">
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    <name><![CDATA[Endah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 06:21:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 14 20:59:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Selir adalah sebuah kata yang lekat dengan kekuasaan sekaligus, mungkin, penderitaan. Kekuasaan karena praktik ini pada zaman dahulu sampai dengan hari ini berlangsung di balik istana raja-raja atau para lelaki penguasa. Penderitaan karena saya hampir yakin seratus persen tak ada selir yang benar-be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37782532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28917329">
    <user id="1092085">
    <name><![CDATA[Sandy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chatham, Ontario, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 31 15:53:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 18:26:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Completely captivating.  This book has now become one of my favourites.  The setting, the characters, the story - based around real events, but fictional - is excellently written, and completely absorbing.<br/><br/>I was completely drawn in to the life of Sachi, devouring page after page, unable t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28917329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60262691">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mayda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jun 28 23:56:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku yang benar- benar menakjubkan, seorang wanita yang berasal dari desa kecil Kiso yang menjalani kehidupan sebagai seorang selir, sampai dia mengetahui jati diri sebenarnya.. dan dapat memilih hidup sesuai dengan keinginannya.<br/>yang menarik adalah latar belakang dari cerita ini dimana saya da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60262691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40653411">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 21 23:36:56 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It could've been good, but the characters were flat.  I know that honour and discipline are prominent character traits for the period, but it doesn't make up 100% of anyone's personality.  All the court women felt exactly the same, all the samurai... everyone.  The plot was too convenient, and the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40653411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56266402">
    <user id="2090731">
    <name><![CDATA[Jo ]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a gripping read by an author who has an obvious love of Japan, and an extensive knowledge of its history and political background. The heroine of the story is Sachi,who at eleven is plucked from a poor village to live in the women's palace, where she becomes the last concubine of the Sho-gun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56266402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70334050">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trying to be as good as memoirs of a geisha, but failing.  Some of the historical bits were really interesting (and I believe pretty factual) but other than that, not great]]></body>
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    <review id="21096919">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read while in Germany, June 2009.<br/><br/>Comments:<br/>* fascinating time period to read about<br/>* made me want to find out more about Japan at this time<br/>* perhaps requires a little bit of prior knowledge about the history of Japan<br/>* very realistic characters<br/>* interesting to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21096919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56862923">
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    <body><![CDATA[looks like i've come to enjoy narratives about remote locations and cultural beliefs and practices so divergent with the common pool of Euro-American resources]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very enjoyable. I love fiction that teaches me something, and this book definitely did. I learned a lot about Japan's history and the life there.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[showing how the the status of women in the oriental world changed in the last two centuries]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved reading this book. Gives you the romance, history and intrigue in this book]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting, remind me about taiko and musashi..]]></body>
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