Plum Wine

Name: Plum Wine
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ISBN: 9780385340830

ISBN-10: 0385340834

ISBN-13: 9780385340830

Edition: N/A

Authors: Angela Davis-Gardner

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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 calligraphy -- one bottle for each of the last twenty years of Michi ' s 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 Michi ' s…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.07" wide x 8.24" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Angela Davis-Gardner is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels Felice, Forms of Shelter, and Plum Wine, which was inspired by the time she spent teaching Tsuda College in Tokyo, Japan. An Alumni Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Angela has won nearly thirty awards for writing and teaching. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is at work on her next novel.