Opis: Plum Wine - Davis-Gardner Angela

Bottles of homemade plum wine link two worlds, two eras, and two lives through the eyes of Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching at a Tokyo university. When her surrogate mother, Michi, dies, Barbara inherits an extraordinary gift: a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped in sheets of rice paper covered in elegant calligraphyone bottle for each of the last twenty years of Michis life.

Why did Michi leave her memoirs to Barbara, who cannot read Japanese Seeking a translator, Barbara turns to an enigmatic pottery artist named Seiji, who will offer her a companionship as tender as it is forbidden. But as the two lovers unravel the mysteries of Michis life, a story that draws them through the aftermath of World War II and the hidden world of the hibakusha, Hiroshima survivors, Barbara begins to suspect that Seiji may be hiding the truth about Michis pastand a heartbreaking secret of his own.

Szczegóły: Plum Wine - Davis-Gardner Angela

Tytuł: Plum Wine
Podtytuł: A Novel
Autor: Davis-Gardner Angela
Wydawnictwo: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780385340830
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2007
Ilość stron: 338
Format: 13.0x20.6cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.265 kg

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