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Plum wine : a novel

Davis-Gardner, Angela (author.).

Summary: 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: print
    xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, 2006.

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Subject:
Americans Japan Fiction
Translating and interpreting Fiction
Inheritance and succession Fiction
Atomic bomb victims Fiction
Female friendship Fiction
College teachers Fiction
Women teachers Fiction
Women's friendships
Japan Fiction
Genre:
Romance fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 16 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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