The Gardens of Kyoto

Kate Walbert

Original title: The gardens of Kyoto

first published 2001 Scribner, 2001 288 pages

Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series

"I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?". "So begins Kate Walbert's novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death for her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and, perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a...

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The gardens of Kyoto edition · 2002 · Virago · 288 pages
The Gardens of Kyoto paperback · 2002 · Scribner · 288 pages · 9780684869490
The gardens of Kyoto edition · 2001 · Thorndike Press · 408 pages
The gardens of Kyoto edition · 2001 · Scribner · 288 pages

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