PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780553379693
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, F LIT, Fiction, Mako Yoshikawa, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Mako Yoshikawa
- Publisher Bantam
- Pages 278
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 23.7cm x 2.1cm x 15.8cm
- Weight 0.35 kg
product description
"I have spent most of my life in New Jersey, but the blood of a geisha courses through me yet." If Kiki Takehashi's life is dramatically different from that of her reserved Japanese-American mother, it is light-years away from that of her grandmother, whom she knows only through old family stories. Kiki has recently become engaged to Eric, a handsome, successful New York City lawyer. But at the same time she is haunted--quite literally--by the memory of her friend Phillip, killed the previous year in a mountaineering accident. Kiki has never met her grandmother Yukiko, for whom she is named. Still, thoroughly American though she is, she feels a secret kinship with her. Kiki is swept up by the story of this strong, proud, passionate woman who, against all odds, in a time and place far different from her own, was sold by her impoverished family, became a famous geisha, and found the love that has so far eluded the rest of the Takehashi women. Lyrical, haunting, and stunningly evocative, One Hundred and One Ways introduces a powerful and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.