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The Teahouse Fire

The Teahouse Fire

Avery, Ellis

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 159448273X
ISBN13: 9781594482731
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Dec 4 2007
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.84
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
Awards: Stonewall Book Award
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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