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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... tell her colleagues . Mrs. Ueda had been Michi's closest friend ; she might be offended that Barbara had the papers . What would any of them think ? She was late for her conversation class . Sumi , Junko , Hiroko , Rie , and several ...
... tell if she was feeling grieved or inconvenienced . " The end of the year holiday will be postponed so that her colleagues will be present to speak their tributes . Would you care to offer some words about her ? " " I'd be honored ...
... tell you a thing Nakamoto sensei spoke to me one time . I was consulting with her about a certain trouble , and she said how pas- sions do not weaken as one grows older . She said this had been a sur- prising thing to her . It was ...
... though the thought of an anonymous person reading Michi's papers was somehow trou- bling . It was impossible to know what to do . The only person who could tell her was gone . The day she learned of Michi - san's death , # 22 #
... tell you I'm doing a column for the Raleigh Times ? ' " Yes you did , that's great . " " Jonathan says they want me to write some reminiscences about Asia , the kind of thing Flora Lewis used to do . " " Michi - san died , " Barbara ...