Helpful Score: 7
An amazing book....beautifully written. A bit slow in spots, but worth it for the rich detail. The story of a young, unspoiled woman in a loveless marriage in Japan at the turn of the last century who gets pregnant from a brief affair with a japanese nobleman and is turned out of the European community to make her way in a strange land. I rarely give a book 5 stars, but this one is a jewel!
Helpful Score: 5
What a neat book and neat story. This is a total sleeper; you'd probably never think to pick it up and read it, but after you do, it stays with you and you're glad of it.
Helpful Score: 3
What I loved most about this book is that the character feels very real. She changes and grows throughout the novel and acts in unexpected ways at times, unlike the thoroughly predictable, one-dimensional character found in many novels.
Slightly worn, but definitely readable.
Slightly worn, but definitely readable.
Helpful Score: 1
fantastic book about asian culture in the early 1900's. Wonderful fictional characters. Love, betrayal, affairs. all the good stuff
Helpful Score: 1
Good book...written from journals and letters, about a young Scotswoman's life in 1903 China...and her affair although married, with a young Japanese nobleman.
