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The Teahouse Fire
de Ellis Avery
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- very fine/very fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594489300
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489303
- Librería
-
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Riverhead Hardcover, New York, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Teahouse Fire is a very fine first edition in a very fine priced jacket(24.95). It is the story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan. The book is also a portrait of one if the most fascinating places and times in all of history-japan as it opens its doors to the west. It was a period when one's choice of kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan's most mysterious rite the tea ceremony became not just a sacramental meal but a ritual battlefield. " Reading Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, for me, is like attending seasons of elegant tea parties- each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious." Maxine Hong Kingston, author of iconic The Woman Warrior" Just reading the liner notes makes me want to throughly enjoy this fascinating story think I will.
Sinopsis
“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.
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- Librería
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 502
- Título
- The Teahouse Fire
- Autor
- Ellis Avery
- Estado del libro
- Usado - very fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1594489300
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489303
- Editorial
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- December 28, 2006
- Palabras clave
- Very Fine first edition/first printing
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- First Edition
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