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The Ginger Tree (Hardcover)

by Oswald Wynd (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Borgo Pr (Jun 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0809590379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809590377
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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By the end, it is the reader who sheds the tears his heroine has kept back for almost 40 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A totally brilliant novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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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12 of 12 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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars much better than memoirs of a Geisha, 11 Oct 1999
By Daisy Goodwin (London) - See all my reviews
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars The Ginger Tree
Excellent book, well worth the read ,well written ,interesting story line ,really enjoyed it.Gives you a very good idea how life was for women in the the early 20th century.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't even grudgingly admire the heroine or her choices
In this story we see more than forty years of East-West relationships and the development of modern Japan first through the eyes of a very young and naive girl and, then,... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars sweet, poignant... was sad when I finished
It really was a fascinating account of early 20th century China and Japan, and even a little Scotland. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 1997

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