# The Commoner

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- Book: [The Commoner](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-burnham-schwartz/the-commoner) ([The Commoner.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-burnham-schwartz/the-commoner.md))
- Authors: [John Burnham Schwartz](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-burnham-schwartz)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0009-605-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2009-01-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown...