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In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sails for China to marry the British military attache, a man who turns out to be every bit as chilly as the Peking winter. During one of his many absences, Mary has a secret affair with a Japanese soldier, Count Kurihama, but her pregnancy by him is impossible to keep secret. Rejected by husband, mother and country, and forced to leave her daughter behind, Mary flees to Japan. 'The Ginger Tree' tells the fascinating story of her survival, isolated and alone, in this alien culture.

About the Author :
Oswald Wynd was born in Tokyo of Scots parents who had left their native Perth to run a mission in Japan. He went to school in Japan where he grew up speaking both English and Japanese. In 1932 he returned with his parents to Scotland, went to Edinburgh University and began to write novels. When war came he joined the Scots Guards but was suddenly commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and sent to Malaya. At the time of the Japanese invasion, he was attached to the Indian Army on the east coast of Malaya, and his brigade covered the final withdrawal to Singapore. Cut off by the Japanese advance, he was lost alone for a week in the Johore jungle. Eventually he was captured and spent more than three years as a prisoner of war, during which time he was mentioned in despatches for his work as an interpreter for prisoners. In Hokkaido, during the last year of the war, he began a novel, Black Fountains, which in 1947 won the Doubleday Prize. After the war he returned to Scotland via the Philippines, having now spent some twenty-three years of his life in the Far East. He lived in Scotland until his death in 1998 writing, among other books, highly successful thrillers under the pseudonym of Gavin Black.

Review :
"Sensitively written, beautifully understated - this honest book is one of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is." The Japan Times "Don't start The Ginger Tree unless you have a few hours to spare. Once you have read the first couple of pages you will find it hard to put down." Sue Earle, South China Morning Post "A totally brilliant novel." Auberon Waugh, Literary Review "By the end, it is the reader who sheds the tears his heroine has kept back for almost forty years." Nicholas Shakespeare, The Sunday Telegraph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781906011987
  • Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Eland Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1906011982
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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