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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... 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 ...
... wrapped in heavy rice paper that was tied with a cord and sealed with a large dot of red wax . On the front of each bottle was a date , written in ink with a brush and below it , a vertical line of cal- ligraphy , perhaps the date in ...
... wrapped in bamboo leaves and served with carrots cut in the shape of turtles " for good luck and longevity . " Had she said for your good luck and longevity ? She thought of Michi's face , her sympathetic but penetrating gaze , her full ...
... wrapped around the wine . The calligraphy seemed something she might have dreamed , and the snow an extension of that dream . She paused at the courtyard be- tween the classroom buildings . Snow melted as it fell into the pond ; there ...
... Wrapped around Rie's head was a grimy protest bandage , a souvenir from last month's demonstration against the U.S. submarine at Yokosuka . Barbara glanced out the window at the white roof of Sango - kan , just visible above the snow ...