Plum Wine: A NovelTerrace Books, 01/04/2006 - 332 páginas Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personal narrative. With the help of her translator, Seiji Okada, Barbara begins to unravel the mysteries of Michi's life, a story that begins in the early twentieth century and continues through World War II and its aftermath. |
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... thank Professor Yoshiko Kuroda of Nagoya University; Tadatoshi Akiba, former mayor of Hiroshima; and Minoru Ohmuta, chairman, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, where I was also assisted by Ikuno Sako, Mika Harland, Hidemi Hayashi, and ...
... thank Professor Yoshiko Kuroda of Nagoya University ; Tadatoshi Akiba , former mayor of Hiroshima ; and Minoru Ohmuta , chairman , Hiroshima Peace Culture Founda- tion , where I was also assisted by Ikuno Sako , Mika Harland , Hidemi ...
... thanks to my mother Evangeline Davis , my father Burke Davis , and Terry Vance , for their support and encouragement . This book would not have been written were it not for Ineko Kondo , who first invited me to Japan , and Fumiko Fujita ...
... Thank you , Rie . " poem . Rie's hand shot up again . " Here at Kodaira College , we have snow - viewing parties . This is very poetic . " She folded her arms across her chest . " It sounds lovely . " Barbara paused , looked at her ...
... Thank you so much , Miss Fujizawa . " Relief surged through her . " I don't really need storage boxes , at least for now . I want to keep the tansu intact as a kind of ... memorial . " " I see . " Miss Fujizawa frowned . Barbara shifted ...