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A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
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The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The Samurai's Garden
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0312144075
- ISBN13
- 9780312144074
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Japan, China, Asia, Japanese Literature, Psychological novels, Asian Fiction, Students, Tuberculosis
- First published
- 1994
- Original title
- The Samurai´s Garden
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.