| Author | : Gail Tsukiyama |
| File Size | : 49,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 24 June 2008 |
| ISBN | : 9781429965149 |
| Pages | : 224 pages |
The Samurai s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Book PDF Summary
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.