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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... 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 . As Barbara and Seiji translate the plum wine ...
... Translating and interpreting—Fiction. 3. Inheritance and succession—Fiction. 4. Hiroshima-shi (Japan)—Fiction. 5. Atomic bomb victims—Fiction. 6. Female friendship—Fiction. 7. College teachers—Fiction. 8. Women teachers—Fiction. 9 ...
... Translating and interpreting — Fiction . 3. Inheritance and succession - Fiction . 4. Hiroshima - shi ( Japan ) —Fiction . 5. Atomic bomb victims - Fiction . 6. Female friendship - Fiction . 7. College teachers - Fiction . 8. Women ...
... and her daughter Aya wrought miracles; interpreters Michiko Hase and Hiro Kamada not only translated conversations and documents but also entered into the spirit of my project with imagination and enthusiasm. Seiji Acknowledgments.
... had been talking about Japan for as long as Barbara could remember . That was why she'd taken Mrs. Nakano's graduate seminar , modern Japanese literature in translation , and one day impulsively asked if there might be an opening at her $ ...