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Gail Tsukiyama has 8 past events. (show) Gail Tsukiyama. Gail Tsukiyama is author of six novels including "The Samurai's Garden" and "The Street of a Thousand Blossoms".
Street of a Thousand Blossoms should give the Fiction Book Club abundant material for discussion.
Community members are invited to meet bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama, at a free event at the Hayward Main Library, 835 C Street, downtown Hayward. Tsukiyama will be speaking about her most recently published novel The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (St. Martin's Press – now available in paperback), ... (more) Gail Tsukiyama. Water Street Bookstore hosts a book group discussion held at the Loaf and Ladle one Sunday of each Month at 3 p.m. This month's selection is The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama. Please join Liz Whaley for a great discussion on Sunday. For more information call us at 603 778 9731.
Join us for luncheon at Mirani’s when GAIL TSUKIYAMA, bestselling author of The Samurai’s Garden and Dreaming Water, speaks about her novel, A Street of a Thousand Dreams, following two brothers in Japan through the devastation of World War II and the hardships of reconstruction. For reservations ... (more)Vroman's Bookstore: Literaries who Lunch presents Gail Tsukiyama discussing The Samurai's Garden (May 22 at 12:00) Gail Tsukiyama discusses the San Marino One City, One Book pick, The Samurai's Garden Set in Japan just before World War II, this novel focuses on 17-year-old Stephen, who leaves his home in Hong Kong just as Japan is poised to invade. He's sent to a small town called Tarumi to recuperate from tuberculosis, ... (more)
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Gail Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, her mother a Chinese immigrant, her father Japanese. This multicultural upbringing is reflected in the deeply personal stories about Chinese women which she has been writing since her first novel, WOMEN OF THE SILK, was published in 1991. Tsukiyama considers herself an examiner of what she calls the lives of "early Chinese feminists," as embodied by the silk workers in her first novel. She has also tackled the topics of the differences between Chinese and Japanese culture (THE SAMURAI'S GARDEN) and the daily struggles of young women growing up in World War II Hong Kong (NIGHT OF MANY DREAMS.) "It has given me a greater sense of who I am, just in realizing what these Chinese women silk workers went through in order to make a life for themselves."  | |
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