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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... tatami sitting room . The workmen had placed the tansu be- tween her kotatsu table and chest of drawers . " Wine ? " Miss Fujizawa and Mrs. Nakano said in unison . The women bent to pull open the top drawer . Miss Fujizawa began an ...
... tatami matting , and on the low table , in the midst of student papers , the jar of peanut butter with the spoon handle rising from it like an exclamation point . Sweaters and underwear were heaped on the tokonoma — the alcove where ...
... tatami matting and bare walls . Gone were the crowded bookshelves , the woodblock prints , the collection of bonsai , and the low table below the window . Michi had served the New Year's day meal there , all the foods pre- pared just ...
... tatami bedroom , just off the sitting room . The ugly metal bed filled most of the space . Not only was the bed too large , but lying in it she felt too large herself , like Alice in Wonderland at her tallest crammed inside the white ...
... tatami room . The whole place seemed altered by Michi's gift , f1lled with her presence . The fox - woman scroll hanging in the shadowy alcove should go in the bedroom too . When Michi had first seen the painting — a woman in kimono ...