Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594200892 (1594200890)
Publish date: June 8th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 345
Edition language: English
Love, devotion and war have always made for strong ingredients in the sort of humanistic story that is a pleasure to read, and that holds true for this tale of heartbreak about a man and a woman from two separate nations during wartime. The fact that this is a love story involving two of the most re...
This one was a real heartbreaker of a story, and even more, it is a true one. Arthur Hart-Synnot arrives in Tokyo in 1904 to learn the Japanese language and seek advancement in his career as a military officer. One of the people that he meets is Masa Suzuki, a young woman who is forced to work in a ...
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