02051nim 2200433Ka 450 991016507000332120240912110838.61-5159-9993-9(CKB)3710000001065472(BIP)060403187(ODN)ODN0003177163(EXLCZ)99371000000106547220170307d2017 uy 1enguruna---|||||spwrdacontentsrdamediacrdamediacrrdacarrierThe samurai's garden A novel. /Gail TsukiyamaUnabridged.Old Saybrook Tantor Audio20171 online resource (8 audio files) digitalUnabridged.The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a twenty-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.FictionOverDriveHistorical FictionOverDriveLiteratureOverDriveFiction.Historical Fiction.Literature.813FIC014000FIC019000FIC051000bisacshTsukiyama Gail1434951Shih DavidnrtAUDIO9910165070003321The samurai's garden4290521UNINA