Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden published 1997 428 pages The strikingly pretty child of an impoverished fishing family, Chiyo is taken to faraway Kyoto and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha...
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The Samurai’s Garden Gail Tsukiyama published 1996 211 pages A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with...
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Street of a Thousand Blossoms Gail Tsukiamaya published 2007 448 pages The story follows brothers through the devastation of war and the hardships of postwar reconstruction. Orphaned when their parents...
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Plum Wine Angela-Davis Gardner published 2007 352 pages Seiji, a potter, tells Barbara, a young and lonely American teaching at a Tokyo university, that it is a tradition in Japan to write about the...
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