by Gail Tsukiyama
When 20-year-old artist Stephen is sent from Hong Kong to his father's family home in Tarumi, Japan, to recover from tuberculosis, he finds a lot more than he expected. The Japanese have just invaded China, and the radio is telling people that the Chinese are evil ... so in town he is viewed with su...
There’s a lot going on in this novel. A young man is sick with tuberculosis, sent to a remote seaside village to recover (or die, though no one mentions that possibility). He’s a would-be artist, experimenting with expression in painting. The life of the family he left behind turns out to be less se...
I tried to like this one, I really did, and as I felt some connection for the main character what with his being an artist and ill with tuberculosis, I thought it might be readable. Instead, in this short novel, there are cliches, more telling than showing and little to keep the reader motivated. Fe...
NO SPOILERSThis book is beautiful. The primary theme is about beauty. (And then there is a love story too.) I think beauty is very important in the Japanese culture. What really is beauty? The tempo is lulling, quiet, and calming. This too creates a kind of beauty. The concept of beauty is drawn th...
it was pretty good; i liked some aspects of it. it was a little overly dramatic at some points. overall it was a decent story though. i recommend it, but not highly...
Man, weakened by tb, goes to recover with an old gardener, meets leper who gardener helped to heal.
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