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Her expectations about living out her life as a Japanese pearl diver shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy, a nineteen-year-old girl is rejected by her family and exiled to a leprosarium on the island of Nagashima, where she forges a new identity among fellow patients and rediscovers her love for the sea. A first novel.
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Olsson's, Washington, DC
"With the strength and delicacy of a Haiku poem, this novel of a young Japanese woman afflicted with leprosy captures with great poignancy the years of isolation and deprivation. And yet, beyond this, beyond the years, is a novel of hope and human kindness."
Square Books, Oxford, MS
"The Pearl Diver affirms that good things often come in small wonderful packages. Those familiar with Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress know what I mean. This new author's evocative story is told so sparsely but so elegantly that it nearly sings."
Merritt Bookstore, Red Hook, NY
"Leprosy is a difficult subject but the author has told [Miss Fuji's] story with such insight. You can only feel compassion for these people through his simple phrases. [The Pearl Diver] is a powerfully moving story."
Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica, CA
"Emotionally charged but subtly written-- a powerful combination. Not one word or scene wasted."
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"With the strength and delicacy of a Haiku poem, this novel of a young Japanese woman afflicted with leprosy captures with great poignancy the years of isolation and deprivation. And yet, beyond this, beyond the years, is a novel of hope and human kindness."
Square Books, Oxford, MS
"The Pearl Diver affirms that good things often come in small wonderful packages. Those familiar with Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress know what I mean. This new author's evocative story is told so sparsely but so elegantly that it nearly sings."
Merritt Bookstore, Red Hook, NY
"Leprosy is a difficult subject but the author has told [Miss Fuji's] story with such insight. You can only feel compassion for these people through his simple phrases. [The Pearl Diver] is a powerfully moving story."
Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica, CA
"Emotionally charged but subtly written-- a powerful combination. Not one word or scene wasted."
JEFF TALARIGO grew up in the United States. After living in a Palestinian refugee camp in the early 1990s, he wrote several works of short fiction based on his experiences that appeared in literary journals. Since 1993, he has been living in Kokura, Japan, with his wife and son. He is at work on his second novel.
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- EditoreDoubleday
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0385510519
- ISBN 13 9780385510516
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The Pearl Diver: A Novel
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Brand New For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. In 1948, A Nineteen-Year-Old Japanese Pearl Diver Is In Her Fourth Season Of Perfecting The Techniques Of Her Age-Old Occupation. But Her Dreams Of Spending Her Life Diving In The Waters Of The Inland Sea Are Shattered When She Discovers That She Has Leprosy. She Knows That The Shame Attached To The Disease Is Inescapable: Rejection By Her Family Is Imminent, Exile Unavoidable. No More Than Two Months Elapse Before Authorities Send Her Off To A Leprosarium On The Island Of Nagashima, And Although It Is Only Seven Miles From Her Home, It Is A World Away From All That Is Familiar To Her. At Once, She Is Instructed To Forget Her Past, To Strike Her Name From The Koseki, The Family Register, And Ordered To Choose A New Name. As ?Miss Fuji? Looks Around Her, She Sees Her Own Future In The Debilitated Bodies And The Lives Of The More Than Two Thousand Other Patients. But Her ?Future? Never Comes; Her Own Case Of Leprosy Remains A Mild One Owing To The Discovery Of A Medicine That Impedes The Disease?S Progression In Its Victims. Yet She Is Not Permitted To Leave Nagashima, And Over Time, She Wonders Whether She Could Even Survive Back On The Mainland. In The End, It Is Her Constant Connection To The Sea And Her Moving Encounters With Those Around Her?A Writer, A Korean Storyteller, A Gardener, A Tanka Poet, An Urn Painter?That Give Her Insight Into Her Own True Nature And The Deep Wellspring Of Courage She Needs To Reclaim Her Freedom. Written With Precision And Eloquence, The Pearl Diver Is An Unforgettable And Compassionate Tale Of One Woman?S Search For Wisdom, Beauty, And Self-Worth; An Extraordinary Literary Debut By Jeff Talarigo. Codice articolo 004617
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