Plum wine a novel

Summary: "Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personl narrative. With the help of her translator, Seiji Okada, Barbara begins to unravel the mysteries of Michi's life, a story that begins in the early twentieth century and continues through World War II and its aftermath."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780299211639 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0299211630 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0299211606
ISBN: 9780299211608
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 316 p.)
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2006.

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