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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... thought that had lately become a mantra . As she took another spoonful of peanut butter , there was a knock at the door . She extracted her legs from beneath the warm table and jumped up . Junko , Hiroko , and Sumi , the students who ...
... thought of leaving her the chest . She looked at the note again . There was a date : 1.1.1966 . New Year's Day , just a few weeks ago . She'd been in Michi's apartment that night . Had she written this before the New Year's dinner or af ...
... thought she been referring to the wines ; making wine was a woman's work . Barbara chose a bottle at random from the middle drawer . She fumbled with the knotted string , slipped it over the bottle ; in her haste to undo the seal , she ...
... thought , how the placement of objects af- fected them . It was true for people too . She herself had never felt accurately placed , had never taken root anywhere . Being so alien here — blond , too tall , illiterate — had made her ...
... thought . She walked briskly down the hall toward the door . Miss Fujizawa called to her from her offtce . " Miss Jefferson , could you please stop in ? " " Oh — Miss Fujizawa . I just sent the girls to the language lab— we're out early ...