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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 compr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis-Gardner, Angela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, ©2006.
Colección:Library of American fiction.
Temas:
Americans > Japan > Fiction.
Translating and interpreting > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Atomic bomb victims > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
College teachers > Fiction.
Women teachers > Fiction.
Successions et héritages > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Victimes de bombardements atomiques > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Amitié féminine > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enseignantes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > Romance > General.
Americans.
Atomic bomb victims.
College teachers.
Female friendship.
Inheritance and succession.
Translating and interpreting.
Women teachers.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Fiction.
Japan > Fiction.
Japan.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Psychological fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 316 pages)
ISBN:9780299211639
0299211630

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