The Ginger Tree - Softcover

Wynd, Oswald

3.96

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870527258 ISBN 13: 9780870527258

Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 1989

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In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attache 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.

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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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