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A literary saga, spanning two generations and two cultures, Canadian and Japanese, reminiscent in writing style and appeal to the work of Isabel Allende.
Suddenly finding herself motherless at the age of six, Vera is left in the care of her grandfather, who spends long periods away at sea, leaving her alone back in Vancouver. When she reaches her teens, Vera is taken by her grandfather's mistress to a small island in Japan.
After years of loneliness, she finds a place where she can feel comfortable. The women of the island take her in and she learns to dive for pearls. Immersed in her surroundings, she meets a mysterious stranger, a man who is trained as a ceremonial sword polisher, who brings her into touch with the outside world. Every day, they listen to the mounting rhetoric on the radio and must live with the knowledge of the havoc that the Japanese are wreaking in China.
Then the worst happens. Vera is forced to return to Canada by a father whom she has long thought is dead. World War Two breaks out. The idyll is over.
But Vera never forgets her island life, the sword polisher, or her true identity. Determined to regain the passion and joy that she once knew, she must return to Japan, to the one place that she truly belonged.
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Suddenly motherless at the age of six, Vera is placed in the care of her grandfather, who spends long periods away at sea, leaving the child alone back in Vancouver. When she reaches her teens, Vera is taken by her granfather's mistress to a small island in Japan. The women of the island take her in, and she learns to dive for pearls.
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Katherine Govier was educated at the University of Alberta and York University, Toronto. She began her career as a journalist, writing for major magazines in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0007207506
- ISBN 13 9780007207503
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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