The Ginger Tree - Softcover

Wynd, Oswald

3.96

3,856 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060973323 ISBN 13: 9780060973322

Publisher: HarperPerennial, 1990

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A totally brilliant novel. -- Auberon Waugh, Literary ReviewBy the end, it is the reader who sheds the tears his heroine has kept back for almost 40 years. -- Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sails for China to marry the British Military Attache, a man who turns out to be every bit as chilly as the Peking Winter. During one of his many absences, Mary has an affair with a Japanese soldier, Count Kurihama, but her pregnancy is impossible to keep secret. Rejected by husband, mother and country, and forced to leave her daughter behind, Mary flees to Japan. The Ginger Tree tells the fascinating story of her survival, isolated and alone, in this alien culture.

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"Wonderful"New York Times "Marvelous"-- The Spectator (London) "Ripping Yarn"-- Daily Record (Scotland) ?One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is.??Japan Times

"Wonderful" -- New York Times

"Marvelous" -- -- The Spectator (London)

"Ripping Yarn" -- -- Daily Record (Scotland)

"Wonderful"--New York Times

"Marvelous"---- The Spectator (London)

"Ripping Yarn"---- Daily Record (Scotland)

"One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is."----Japan Times

One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is. ----Japan Times"

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First published in 1977

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