Full name: The Samurai's Garden: A Novel

Author: Gail Tsukiyama Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction Cultures: Japan, Asia, China Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312144074 0312144075

A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen 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 soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy. Similar books: Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd Sayonara by James A. Michener The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro by Alison Fell December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Yuri Minatoya The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Gai-Jin by James Clavell The Ronin by William Dale Jennings The Truth of the Matter by Robb Forman Dew The Emperor's General by James Webb Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan