Author: Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)
Book title: The Pillow Book (枕草子)
Narrator: Vesna Jaćimović [Vesna Yatchimovich]
Duration: 5 hours and 29 minutes
No. of pages in black print: 171
Publisher: Lom
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2022
About the book:
Sei Shōnagon lived at the turn of the 11th century, during the Heian period, the golden age of Japanese culture! At the age of twenty-four, she became a lady-in-waiting to Empress Sadako, where she began writing her renowned The Pillow Book, a remarkable collection of personal observations and reflections. Compiled over the ten years she spent at court; the original work exceeds 700 pages.
Considered a masterpiece of Japanese literature, published in English as The Pillow Book, this extraordinary work is both a literary and poetic document, as well as an exceptionally rich source of insight into the lives of the aristocracy in the refined and secluded world of the Heian period, a society that existed in remarkable isolation from both place and time.