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A fine debut novel a strong story, written with the grace and poignancy that hindsight bring s' Edna O'Brien ('Kate Walbert's fine delicate prose captures voices that we don't hear much any more & she guides us from past to present, & from death to life, with affectionate detail and deep understanding. GARDENS OF KYOTO is a ghost story, a mystery, a love story an)
Amy Bloom ('This is an intensely moving love story.')
THE TIMES ('Wallbert has created a haunting and complex debut novel whose elliptical, adolescent eroticism may do something to alleviate the craving of readers experiencing withdrawal symptoms after finishing Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT.')
GUADRIAN ('The novel becomes a convincing chronicle of domestic life in mid-twentieth century America.')
I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?'
So begins Ellen's heartbreaking story of coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. She starts with Randall, the cousin with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets and, perhaps, love. When Ellen receives a package after Randall's death containing his diary and a book called The Gardens of Kyoto, the mysteries of his short life start to unravel. But it soon becomes apparent that Ellen's memory may be distorting reality, altered as it is by a mix of imagination and disappointment, and that the truth about Randall, and others, may be hidden.
With lyrical, seductive prose, Walbert spins several parallel stories of the damage done by war. Like the mysterious arrangements of the intricate sand, rock and gravel gardens of Kyoto, they gracefully assemble into a single, rich mosaic.
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