Author | : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393058147 |
A great samurai and a beautiful poet fall in love in a novel that captures medieval Japan in breathtaking detail. The heartbreaking story of their renewed love is fraught by the Japanese concept of "mono no aware"--life's ephemeral nature--that weighs on the lovers.