Review: "The Samurai's Garden" by Gail Tsukiyama
The setting is poignant. It is 1937, and Japan's Imperial Army is raging across China, pushing ever farther south, leaving destruction in its wake. In Hong Kong, a Chinese university student from a well-to-do family falls ill with tuberculosis. His father, a successful businessman who divides his time between China and Japan, arranges for him to recuperate in a quiet village in rural Japan where the family has a vacation home. The cooler, drier...
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