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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... asked her . " My mother , " she'd said , going on to explain about her having been a foreign correspondent here in the 1930s , before the war , and how her mother had been talking about Japan for as long as Barbara could remember . That ...
... asked her more questions . She looked around the empty room . It was too late now . She closed Michi's door gently behind her . In her six - mat room , the tansu looked bereft , marooned sideways in the middle of the room . There wasn't ...
... asked Barbara if she would join her , Hiroko , and Sumi for lunch in Kokubungi . Barbara hesi- tated , but the girls looked eager . They were her best friends here , closer in age than any of the faculty . They agreed on one o'clock ...
... asked . She'd occasionally seen the girls going into Michi's apartment . They nodded enthusiastically . " Very ... asking is — she left me something — a tansu chest . " " Ah so desuka ? " they said , not quite in unison . " There was a ...
... asked . " The son of one of them , " Sumi said . " I have heard that he was Nakamoto sensei's student at one time . " As Barbara made her way through the crowd , she felt the man looking at her ; she did not meet his gaze . She set off ...