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The Ginger Tree (Paperback)

by Oswald Wynd (Author)
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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (25 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0907871038
  • ISBN-13: 978-0907871033
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,810 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"By the end it is the reader who sheds the tears his heroine has kept back for almost 40 years" Nicholas Shakespeare Sunday Telegraph

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A totally brilliant novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb book, the struggle of one woman, born before her time, 25 Aug 2001
By anita_howard@lineone.net (Otley, West Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ginger Tree (Paperback)
The story of a courageous young girl travelling halfway across the world to marry a man she hardly knows. A woman ahead of her time, hidebound by the conventions of the day, endeavouring to burst forth like a butterfly from a chrysallis. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a stiff and conventional man, she falls in love with a Japanese warrior and pays dearly for that passion. It is then that our heroine's real journey begins, taking the reader on a path of discovery: the book reveals much about the struggle of women in the early 20th century to overcome the place to which men had allotted them, let alone to survive and prosper in a strange land with deep held traditions and views on the role of women. A wonderful book which explores women, upper middle class British views in that era and the struggle the Japanese faced coming to terms with a new century, wanting what was on offer from the West whilst desperately hanging on to the old ways. Any one who has ever felt that they have been born at the wrong time then this book will strike a resonant chord in your heart.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 5 Mar 2000
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This review is from: The Ginger Tree (Fiction - Crime and) (Paperback)
I read this following Memoirs of a Geisha and found it to be just as good, if not better.

Written in diary entries, the book follows the daunting journey and new life for a 21 year old in the Far East with a young, military husband.

I cannot recommend this book enough - it is moving, harrowing, amusing and haunting. A must-read.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars much better than memoirs of a Geisha, 11 Oct 1999
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The Ginger Tree is the story of a young gril from Edinburgh who travels to the Far East to marry, has a scandalous affair, an illegitimate baby by a Japanese samurai and ends up becoming Japan's leading dress designer. To summarise the plot makes the book sound rather sensational but infact it is an absorbing and sensitive account of Japanese society before the the Second World War. Mary Mackenzie makes an almost convicning tranformation in this book from prim Sctoch maiden to wordly businesswoman, but the real interest of this book lies in the fascinating portrait it gives of Japanese Society. Definitely worth reading by anyone who enjoyes the recent bestseller Memoirs of a Geisha.
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