Tsukiyama, Gail

The Samurai's Garden

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ISBN 13:: 9780312144074
author:: Tsukiyama, Gail
format:: Paperback
publisher:: St Martins Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 1996
Pages:: 224
Genre:: Modern fiction
Condition:: New
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The Samurai's Garden is a poignant novel set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s. A young Chinese painter, struggling with tuberculosis, finds refuge in a Japanese coastal village, where he is cared for by a reticent housekeeper and master gardener.

Over the course of a remarkable year, the young painter learns the secrets of the housekeeper's remarkable garden and gains profound spiritual insight. He comes to appreciate the housekeeper's generous and nurturing way of life, and the beauty he finds in a world marked by cruelty and arbitrariness.

This powerful and moving story explores the complexities of human relationships and the search for meaning in a world torn apart by conflict and suffering.

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