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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... seemed eccentric rather than cold , with its funny , mismatched furniture , into the six - mat tatami room . The whole place seemed altered by Michi's gift , f1lled with her presence . The fox - woman scroll hanging in the shadowy ...
... seemed something she might have dreamed , and the snow an extension of that dream . She paused at the courtyard be- tween the classroom buildings . Snow melted as it fell into the pond ; there was a wrinkling of ice around the lotus ...
... seemed suddenly on the verge of tears . " I have an idea , " Barbara said . " Why don't you write about what you don't understand ? " " You want me to write what I do not know ? " " Yes , why original sin is strange to you 16.
... seemed the essence of the mystery that she had entered . The branches of the plum trees were layered with flowers and snow , just as Sumi had said . She held up one branch and shook loose the snow . Some flowers were frozen in the bud ...
... seemed to waver , and the whole hall went dim . " But I just saw her . . . . " Barbara hugged the laundry and looked around her , at the dark hall . " I am sorry for your sorrow , " Miss Ota said . " She took good care of you , desu ne ...