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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... sounds lovely . " Barbara paused , 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 ...
... sound of some- one playing the koto , dolorous strands of sound that usually made her homesick . Today , it seemed the essence of the mystery that she had entered . The branches of the plum trees were layered with flowers and snow ...
... sounds of a plucked shamisen and a flute . In the Western - style room , she swept and dusted around the al- batross of ... Sound and the Fury ' ' In another pile were pic- tures of herself and Michi at Kamakura . There was the fleeting ...
... sounds were her footsteps and breathing . A boy in a black student's uniform sped past her on a bicycle , spraying her with muddy water . " Sumimasen , " he called over his shoulder , then kept staring back at her . He looked forward ...
... sound of surprise . He carefully set down the bucket , pushed back his hair with one hand , and came toward her smiling . He was wearing a heavy black sweater , loose monpe trousers , and black rubber boots . On his forehead and one ...