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Plum wine : a novel / Angela Davis-Gardner.

Davis-Gardner, Angela, (author.).

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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 personl 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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  • ISBN: 9780299211608
  • ISBN: 0299211606
  • ISBN: 9780385340830
  • ISBN: 0385340834
  • Physical Description: xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, 2006.

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Romance fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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