Wynd Oswald - The Ginger Tree - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is. Japan Times The classic bittersweet story of love and betrayal in the Far East. A stunning tour de force acclaimed throughout the world The Ginger Tree is the spellbinding odyssey of one woman's strength and spirit in the face of terrifying odds. In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed a military attach in Peking. But soon after her arrival Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman scandalizing the British community. Casting her out of the European community her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.
Title: The Ginger Tree
Author(s): Wynd Oswald
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060959678
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/28/2002
Series: Perennial Classics