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The Ginger Tree
Oswald Wynd

The Ginger Tree

Perennial (Oct 31, 1990)
9780060973322
| Paperback
304 pages | 135 x 198 mm | Japan | English
$ 13.00 | Value: $ 13.00
Dewey F WYN
LC Classification PR6073.Y65 .G56 1991
LC Control No. 89046498

Genre

  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • Adultery - Fiction
  • Illegitimate Children - Fiction
  • Japan - History - Fiction

Plot

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.