The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon Gerbrand Bakker As the villagers come to

As the villagers come to pay their respects

This is the first complete edition in English of Italo Calvino's funny

De drie romans zijn een unieke vermenging van fantasie

Dat hij het onderspit delfde

they crumble

The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon Gerbrand Bakker As the villagers come toWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow Book is one of the greatest works of Japanese literature. A fascinating exploration of life amongst the nobility at the height of the idyllic Heian period, it describes the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion and whim dominated. From brief reflections to longer, lyrical tales, Shonagon moves elegantly across themes including