- Title:
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The Woman in the White Kimono
- Written by:
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Ana Johns
- Read by:
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Laurence Bouvard
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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11 hours 20 minutes
- Published:
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August 25 2019
- Available Date:
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August 25 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655601364
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Sagas
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man – an American sailor, a gaijin – and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.
America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation – one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori's journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.
In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.
'An elegant testament to the tenacity of hope, even when the bindings of cultural and familial expectations are drawn so tight.'
Kelli Estes, bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
'... a powerful and heartbreaking literary novel; a lush and masterful exploration of the indomitability of the human spirit set against the backdrop of post-World War II Japan.'
Karen Dionne, bestselling author of The Marsh King's Daughter