by Liza Dalby · Wunderlich im Rowohlt · tapa dura · ISBN 9783805206778
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«Pflaumenblüten im Schnee» is Liza Dalby's biographical novel, published by Wunderlich im Rowohlt in hardcover (637 pages, in German).
Biographical novel about Murasaki Shikibu, the court lady author of the «Genji Monogatari». Daughter of a poet, she consoles her loneliness by inventing stories of Prince Genji; as they spread, a regent recruits her to entertain the empress and she becomes immersed in the political and amorous intrigues of the Heian court.
German translation by Alexandra Bröhm of the original «The Tale of Murasaki»; the edition carries the subtitle «Roman» and appeared in 2000.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and Japanese literature interested in the Heian court and the origins of the «Genji Monogatari».
Liza Crihfield Dalby is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society. Since that time, she has written five books. Her first book, Geisha, was based on her early research. The next book, Kimono: Fashioning Culture is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono. This was followed with a fictional account of the Heian era noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, titled The Tale of Murasaki. In 2007 she wrote a memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, which was followed two years later by a second work of fiction, Hidden Buddhas.
