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Loading... The Samurai's Garden: A Novel (original 1994; edition 1996)by Gail Tsukiyama
Work detailsThe Samurai's Garden: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama (1994)
None. A wonderfully written and poignant story. Stephen is sent from China to his grandfather's beach house in Japan. It is here that is life becomes entwined with Matsu and Sachi, a leper colony and a young first love with a Japanese girl. He learns about the Japanese invasion of China from radio broadcasts and letters from home. The characters are amazingly fleshed out, I felt like I really knew them by the end of the book. It ended the only way I believe it could have ended. This is a coming of age story, a love story and a story about the true meaning of beauty as well as a historical novel. This is an amazing novel, one which I highly recommend. (  )1   Beamis12 | Sep 10, 2012 |  LHS in-coming 9th Grade Summer Reading. From Library Journal: Seventeen-year-old Stephen leaves his home in Hong Kong just as the Japanese are poised to invade China. He is sent to Tarumi, a small village in Japan, to recuperate from tuberculosis. His developing friendship with three adults and a young woman his own age brings him to the beginnings of wisdom about love, honor, and loss. rgruberexcel | Sep 4, 2012 | I love this book, and this story. A love story on many levels. And a coming of age story. Historical. Beautiful. It reads like a classic; timeless and true. (  ) Lissa28 | Aug 22, 2011 | Slow moving like a Japanese garden about a young Chinese man who moves to his grandfather's beach house in Japan to find the cure for taburculois. Leprosy and the Japanese war in China serve as the antagonists. (  ) bblum | May 24, 2011 | 4.1 ( ) MavisBookclub | Apr 20, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312144075, Paperback)The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who 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.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:54:02 -0500) In 1938, Stephen Chan, 20, who lives in Hong Kong, is sent to recover from tuberculosis in his family's summer house in Japan. While there he becomes privy to a romantic triangle between a beautiful woman leper and two men, a romance he records in his diary. A tale of Oriental love and friendship by the author of Women of the Silk.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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