The Commoner (Readers Circle Series) - Tapa dura

Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"

"Schwartz pulls of a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"

Praise for THE COMMONER
"Schwartz pulls of a grand feat in giving readers a moving dramatization of a cloistered world."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Schwartz's renderings of the royal family are not only believable but absorbing.... well nuanced and tightly executed.... A moving portrait of women living the most interior of lives."
-"Bookpage"

Praise for RESERVATION ROAD"
""A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."
-"Los Angeles Times
""Haunting...a powerful and affecting novel."
-"The" "New York Times
""Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious and fragile, and infinitely perilous."
-"Entertainment Weekly
""A triumph...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."
-"The New York Times Book Review"

In 1959, Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan, becoming the first commoner to enter the mysterious and reclusive world of Japanese royalty, confronting the cruelty and suspicions of the court, until, three decades later, she helps arrange the marriage of her son, in a novel inspired by the real-life stories of the reigning empress and crown princess of Japan. (General Fiction)