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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... she'd paid an unannounced visit to Barbara's conversation class and found her demonstrating American dances — the twist , the monkey , and the swim — for her giggling stu- dents . Barbara's predecessor , Carol Sutherland , would never ...
... 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 was why she'd taken Mrs ...
... she'd been at loose ends , she told her , a love affair over , her disserta- tion stalled . Michi's Ph.D. had been in history — rare for a woman in Japan— but Barbara didn't know her area of specialization , or why she'd cho- sen ...
... she'd shown her the tansu . She'd told Barbara of her failure to publish in her academic field , which was almost exclusively the domain of male professors . Barbara had thought she been referring to the wines ; making wine was a ...
... she'd made up , under the electric blanket . She undressed and slid into the futon . The camphor fragrance of the chest filled the room , a subtle incense . Why would Michi have given the tansu to her , the one person on the campus who ...