The Samurais Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
The Samurais Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
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The Samurai's Garden
A Novel

Author: Gail Tsukiyama

Narrator: David Shih

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/07/2017

Synopsis

The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a twenty-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who 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 soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

About Gail Tsukiyama

Gail Tsukiyama is the bestselling author of several novels, including Women of the Silk and A Hundred Flowers, as well as the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. She lives in El Cerrito, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on May 11, 2019

This novel very much focuses on Japanese culture in 1930’s rural Japan. At that time Japan was invading China and savaging China’s people and cities. Yet life goes on in the rural village pretty much as usual with the exception that all the young men are missing as they are off at war. (Edited 5/11/1......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on December 13, 2023

15 stars This is my second reading of this most beautiful book. It was hypnotic the 1st time around, but the second reading made me think about why I loved it the 1st time This took away it's hypnotic effect. Never analyze a book just go with the flow But I had to question why I felt this book was so......more

Goodreads review by Kemunto on February 22, 2023

Many thanks to my GR friend Murray for the recommendation! Something beautiful. Something tender. For a year we follow Stephen, a 20 year old Chinese boy sick with TB and who to recuperate, moves from busy Hong Kong to his grandfather's beach house in Tarumi, Japan. It is also around this time that J......more

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