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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A Novel Angela Davis-Gardner. Plum Wine A Novel Angela Davis-Gardner The University of Wisconsin Press Terrace Books Terrace Books, a division of the University of Wisconsin Press,
... wine papers they form an intimate bond , with Michi a ghostly third in what becomes an increasingly uneasy triangle . Bar- bara is deeply affected by the revelation that Michi and Seiji are hibakusha , survivors of the atomic bombing in ...
... wine chest ! " she called out , following them down the hall to the 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 ...
... wine , " Barbara shouted . " Michi - san gave it to me— you can't take it . " For a moment they studied her gravely ... wine were stocky , the papers tight around them . She laid her hand on one of the wines , feeling the coolness of the ...