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Gail TsukiyamaThe Samurai's GardenGail TsukiyamaThe Samurai's GardenQUALITY PAPERBACK
EAN: 9780312144074Release Date: 4/15/1996
LIST PRICE: $15.99 (you save $2.00)
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy. ""Tsukiyama brings a fluid, smooth elegance to the complicated story she tells.""—The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
""An exraordinary graceful and moving novel about goodness and beauty. Tsukiyama is a wise and spellbinding storytelling.""—Booklist ""Beautifully crafted . . . Tsukiyama's writing is crystalline and delicate, and notably in her evocative of time and place.""—Publishers Weekly |
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