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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... took her seat beside Junko and set the briefcase on the floor between her feet . They began with a conjugation review : it is snowing , it has snowed , perhaps it will snow again . Shigeko , an aristocratic - looking girl whose hobby ...
... took good care of you , desu ne ? Very sad , very very sad . " Miss Ota pulled her ki- mono tightly around her and hurried back across the hall . Barbara stared at the closed door of Michi's apartment . It seemed impossible . She had ...
... took a seat there and ordered the same thing they'd had that night : tuna , mackerel , octopus . She looked around — no one she knew— and asked for a beer . She took the journal from her pocketbook . A man sat down beside her ; she ...
... took the photograph to her bedroom and put it on the tansu ; she'd get a frame for it tomorrow . She picked up dirty clothes from the six - mat room and put a blue pottery bowl on the tokonoma . The floor of her bedroom closet was ...
... took the kimono from Mrs. Ueda's arm . " I'll let you get to your bath , Miss Ota . " With a nod to Mrs. Ueda , she slipped past the two women and went quickly across the hall . She closed the apartment door behind her , then stood ...