The Samurai's Garden: A Novel

by Gail Tsukiyama

2021-02-02 11:46:24

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... Read more

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.

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