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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... returned the wine to the drawers . She noticed that the dates on the outside of each paper — the only symbols in English — all looked recent . The brushstrokes were dark ; not even the oldest dates were faded . Michi must have dated the ...
... returned carrying a rose - patterned tea service and china cups on a silver tray . She poured out the tea , offered ... returning with a tray for Barbara , on it several covered bowls . " Please , " she said , gesturing toward the tray ...
... returned to her tree , for an improvised second sleep . The rustics , with Hiroko / Bottom as Pyramus , Chieko as Thisbe , and Sumi as the wall , began to act out the play of the ill - fated lov- ers in comic pantomime — the actual ...
... returned with a wooden box and Barbara's furoshiki . She watched his hands — such long , graceful fingers — as he wrapped the bowl in the cloth , then put it inside the box and tied it with a brown ribbon . She accepted it with a bow ...
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