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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A Novel Angela Davis-Gardner. 1. The chest arrived on a grey afternoon in late January, three weeks after Michi-san's death. Barbara sat huddled at the electric table in her six-mat room, eating peanut butter washed down with green tea ...
A Novel Angela Davis-Gardner. The chest arrived on a grey afternoon in late January , three weeks after Michi - san's death . Barbara sat huddled at the The electric table in her six - mat room , eating peanut butter washed down with ...
... chest . Not a particularly fine one , I'm afraid . " Miss Fujizawa nodded toward the small chest that stood between the two workmen . " This note was appended to it , " she said , handing Barbara a slender envelope . Inside , on a sheet ...
... chest between them . The chest was small , three - drawered , a third the size of Barbara's clothes tansu . She recognized the plum blossom designs on the tan- su's hardware , the dark metal plates to which the drawer pulls were ...