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"Tsukiyama brings a fluid, smooth elegance to the complicated story she tells.""--""The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"
"An exraordinary graceful and moving novel about goodness and beauty. Tsukiyama is a wise and spellbinding storytelling.""--""Booklist "
"Beautifully crafted . . . Tsukiyama's writing is crystalline and delicate, and notably in her evocative of time and place.""--""Publishers Weekly"
"An exraordinary graceful and moving novel about goodness and beauty. Tsukiyama is a wise and spellbinding storytelling.""--""Booklist "
"Beautifully crafted . . . Tsukiyama's writing is crystalline and delicate, and notably in her evocative of time and place.""--""Publishers Weekly"
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On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. There he meets four local residents, and what ensues is a classical yet wonderfully unique adventure that seizes the imagination with its clean, simple yet dazzling storytelling.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is, without a doubt, the most beautiful piece of writing I have ever read. On a literary note the writing is wonderful and the story is captivating. On an emotional level, the depths to which the author takes both you and her characters is fascinating.
Every year, my friends receive the book that has meant the most to me the previous year. This year, small, brown-paper wrapped SG's will be crossing the land.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book several years ago and it has stayed in my mind ever since. The story begins shortly before World War 2 with a Chinese man who is sent to recover from tuberculosis at his family's summer home in Japan.There he meets a beautiful Japanese girl and three other characters, and the tale that unfolds is so captivating and heartfelt that I was swept along with it. At one point I actually gasped out loud with sorrow, at others I smiled with delight. My teenage daughter and her friends all also enjoyed this book and her Japanese teacher added it to her reading list of recommendations for the students. This is an enchanting book that I will keep forever on my bookshelves.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gail Tsukiyama's "The Samurai's Garden" is an extraordinarily moving tale about the transformation of human lives through pain and sadness to beauty and dignity. The movement of the language is like a soft focus picture coming into sharper focus. The author handles telling scenes so simply and poetically because they are universal themes of loss, longing, and of belonging to a community. Most vivid are Sachi's scene in the ocean with the other leprosy victims from her village, and the pearl diver story of Sachi's first caregiver, Michiko. With the latter, Michiko's life is revealed in 4 or 5 pages, and I was moved to tears by this character's remarkable selflessness, capacity to love, and faith in the goodness and rightness of things despite the horrendous disfiguring disease she suffered from. Gail Tsukiyama is a worthy successor to my favorite Japanese author, Yasunari Kawabata. Stephen's story is rendered warm and humane.
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Tsukiyama
Gail Tsukiyama is a very special writer,simple and elegant. There is so much self-conscious profundity around, so much transgressive wackiness the professors have elevated , it is... Read more
Published 5 months ago by LL kimo
Calmness and dignity
I am happy to go with the flow of the other reviews. This is a fine work, tenderly delivered, with some noble characters. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Top Banana
A beautiful uplifting story
This is a beautifully written tale about a Hong Kong Chinese boy sent to Japan in the 1930's to convalesce after a bout of tuberculosis. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2009 by JHP
Beautiful book.
There is nothing more to say about this book other than how beautifully it is written. You almost want to read every word so very slowly as you know you're going to just finish... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2008 by M. Stone
This book is beautiful
This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. The character development was paced beautifully and the storyline was heartfelt. I was moved to tears at the end. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 1999
A beautiful novel
This book was wonderful! As a person interested in China and Japan, this was a perfect book to read. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 1999
Extremely Moving
This book may be one of the best books I have ever read. In fact, I only disliked one paragraph in which Stephen, the young man in which the book is focused on, dreams about... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 1999
Very Good Book
Very good book very interesting even to a kid my age it seems to have made me feel as if I was Stephen traped in a world where i could not find where my loyalty stands
Published on 17 Mar 1999
A Fulfilling Read
Having lived in Japan for four years, I was able to mentally visit the authors scenes. The writing was exceptionally well-paced -- languid during appropriate scenes, faster when... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 1999
A 20-yr-old guy who went to Japan during the Japan-China war
This is a pretty good book, Tsukiyama uses a lot of simple words to describe the whole story. She desribes everything neatly and carefully. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 1999
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