The Ginger Tree - Couverture souple

Wynd, Oswald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060973323 ISBN 13 : 9780060973322

Editeur : HarperPerennial, 1990

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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

Biographie de l'auteur

Oswald Wynd (1913-1998) was born in Tokyo to Scottish missionaries and spent his formative years in Japan. He attended the University of Edinburgh and joined the Scots Guards in 1939. During World War II, Wynd spent three years as a Japanese prisoner of war; it was at this time that he began to write seriously. He is the author of many novels including The Blazing Air and Death the Red Flower. Under the pseudonym Gavin Black, Wynd wrote many well-received thrillers. He died in Scotland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperPerennial
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060973323
• ISBN 13: 9780060973322
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 294