The Samurai's Garden
On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. He will rest, swim in the salubrious sea, and paint in the brilliant shoreside light. It will be quiet and solitary. But he meets four local residents - a lovely young Japanese girl and three older people. What then ensues is a tale that readers will find at once classical yet utterly unique. Young Stephen has his own adventure, but it is the unfolding story of Matsu, Sachi, and Kenzo that seizes your attention and will stay with you forever. Tsukiyama, with lines as clean, simple, telling, and dazzling as the best of Oriental art, has created an exquisite little masterpiece.
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Just finished today. At first I thought this book was too slow and was not interested but since it was for book club I kept plodding along while reading other books that had caught my interest quicker. I soon found that it had a soothing quality to the writing and made me feel quite attached to the calm nature of the characters and the story. There are no action packed scenes and no real huge revelations but the book has a pure human quality that drew me in and I was very sad when it was over. I really wanted to know more about what happened to the characters not because the author didn’t give me an ending but because I felt they were part of my life now and wanted to know they lived out their lives as they deserved. Overall an endearing and I will say surprisingly special book.