Plum Wine: A Novel - Softcover

Davis-Gardner, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385340834 ISBN 13: 9780385340830

Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2007

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Book by DavisGardner Angela

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Críticas

"A mystery that unfolds as beautifully, delicately, and ceremoniously as a lotus blossom. One of the most memorable novels I have read in many years."--Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill

"A heartrending story of love and loss...masterful."--Seattle Times

"Angela Davis-Gardner is a wondrous and generous writer."--Amy Tan

"The story of a powerful and moody love affair between a visiting American schoolteacher and a Japanese potter, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. In stark and lovely prose, Davis-Gardner creates a believable excursion into the deep heart of a good young woman."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered

"Plum Wine is equal parts mystery and romance, an enchantment cast with wise and graceful passion."--Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

"A beautiful and moving story, filled with grace, sorrow, sin and redemption."--Charlotte Observer

"Beautiful, atmospheric.... Davis-Gardner's sensitive, elegant prose paints the furtiveness of forbidden love against the broad canvas of war's lasting effects."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

Reseña del editor

Inheriting a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped in sheets of calligraphy-covered paper following the death of her friend and colleague Michiko, Barbara Jefferson, an American teaching at a Tokyo university, hires an enigmatic translater named Seiji to unravel the mysteries of Michiko's life and the hidden world of the hibakusha, Horishima survivors. Reprint. 42,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0385340834
• ISBN 13: 9780385340830
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352