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In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. When her husband, a talented potter arranges for his next delivery of wares to Europe, she hides her painting in the shipment. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the wooden crate from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolour of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals it and hides it in his room only to become obsessed with the painting and its meaning. Set outside the new capital of Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration and in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, the novel is a richly imagined story of four characters whose lives are delicately and powerfully entwined: Ayoshi, the painter, pines for her lover as she dutifully attends to her husband; Ayoshi's husband, Hayashi, a government official who's been disfigured in a deadly fire, has his own well of secret yearnings; Jorgen, crippled by the war and tormented by his own lost love, buries himself in work at the Paris shop; and the shop owner's sister, Natalia, determined to fight for the French cause, seeks Jorgen's help and shows him the true message of the painting.
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In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. When her husband, a talented potter arranges for his next delivery of wares to Europe, she hides her painting in the shipment. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the wooden crate from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolour of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals it and hides it in his room only to become obsessed with the painting and its meaning. Set outside the new capital of Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration and in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, the novel is a richly imagined story of four characters whose lives are delicately and powerfully entwined: Ayoshi, the painter, pines for her lover as she dutifully attends to her husband; Ayoshi's husband, Hayashi, a government official who's been disfigured in a deadly fire, has his own well of secret yearnings; Jorgen, crippled by the war and tormented by his own lost love, buries himself in work at the Paris shop; and the shop owner's sister, Natalia, determined to fight for the French cause, seeks Jorgen's help and shows him the true message of the painting.
Bokdetaljer
Forlag Algonquin Books
Utgivelsesår 2004
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9781565124417
EAN 9781565124417
Genre Historisk litteratur
Omtalt tid 1800-tallet
Språk Engelsk
Sider 299
Utgave 1
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