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Hot Times in Old Edo
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THE FIRE KIMONO
By Laura Joh Rowland
St. Martin's Minotaur. 297 pp. $24.95
Laura Joh Rowland's "The Fire Kimono" is an exercise in pure
entertainment. It's not deep or profound, but it takes us to an
exotic time and place and overwhelms us with intrigue, romance,
adventure and frequent bloodshed. The time is 1700, and the place is
Tokyo, then called Edo. Rowland's hero is Sano Ichiro, samurai,
chamberlain to the shogun and -- here as in earlier books in the
series -- part-time detective. In this installment, the 13th,
Sano's own mother is accused of murder, and he must prove her
innocence ...
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A classic comeback INTERVIEW HE PRESENTED A SNAZZY BREAKFAST SHOW - ON RADIO 3 - AND PAID THE PRICE. BUT PETROC TRELAWNY WAS SIMPLY TOO GOOD TO LOSE, SAYS DAMIAN THOMPSON
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...or movie stars; I wanted to be a Radio 3 announcer.) He hands over his script, and I roll the words 'Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky' around my mouth with the relish of a Russian spy in a Bond movie. 'Not bad,' he says, 'but don...
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BEIJING
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; ...Tel: 6521-1425 Russian comedy: The two-act ironic comedy "Even Homer Sometimes Nods" written by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, will be staged in the capital performed by Russian dramatists. The play unfolds as it tries to find the...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Bird, painter, 1772; John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham, Governor-General of Canada, 1792; Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, playwright, 1823; Edmond Audran, composer, 1840; James Louis Garvin, newspaper editor, 1868; Bobby...
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