Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her WorldModern · History, Nonfiction, Japan
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
2020 · 352 pages · Nonfiction
31
Modern
★ 3.77 on Goodreads · 3K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Biography) winner (2020). 3.77★ from 3K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
31Must-Read Score
- Critics62 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
- Readers6 out of 100 · counts 50%+3
- Buzz19 out of 100 · counts 15%+3
Where it ranks
- #193 of the 220 history books we rank
- #293 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #1085 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Biography) winner (2020)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (2021)
- Baillie Gifford Prize finalist (2020)
Reads as
True story
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