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In 1860 Japan, Tada Shoh, a samurai doctor, is assigned to the British Legation and must balance his loyalty to Japan with his interest in learning about western medicine.
I am just reading this novel and am terribly impressed with it. Lynn Guest clearly speaks Japanese and is incredibly knowledgeable about the culture and imagines and evokes it wonderfully. I love the way she communicates the different worlds - the ronin, the doctor, the samurai mother, the Yoshiwara and the westerners and all the incidents of that dramatic time are there. This book is beautifully written and brilliantly evoked and deserves to be rescued from oblivion.
I am just reading this novel and am terribly impressed with it. Lynn Guest clearly speaks Japanese and is incredibly knowledgeable about the culture and imagines and evokes it wonderfully. I love the way she communicates the different worlds - the ronin, the doctor, the samurai mother, the Yoshiwara and the westerners and all the incidents of that dramatic time are there. This book is beautifully written and brilliantly evoked and deserves to be rescued from oblivion.
