The Courtesan and the SamuraiAn epic story of forbidden love in a time of war by the author of The Last Concubine, one of the bestselling hardcover debuts of 2008. 1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house, she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure