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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... 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 space for another chest in ...
... out at night to eat grass . Her scroll was now a luminous rectangle in the dim light . It looked va- cant , as though the fox woman had continued down the path and out of sight . S now continued falling during the night , sifting down 12 #
... looked like tiny maps . The brushwork was graceful and confi- dent ; the writing had an air of significance . It was strange that Michi hadn't left the papers to a family member or a colleague . She must have family somewhere ; perhaps ...
... looked at her watch . Still half of the class to go . She'd left the papers strewn on the tatami . What if Miss Fujizawa sent the workmen while she was out ? She felt a lurch in her stomach . " I'm going to dismiss you early today , so ...
... looked up at the matted whiteness . Michi - san had told her she liked to lie on the ground in the early spring looking at the blossoms against the blue sky . " Seeing the plum flowers always gives me hope , " she had said . To be ...