Ginger Tree

<p><strong>One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is. -- <em>Japan Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>The classic bittersweet story of love and betrayal in the Far East.</strong></p><p><strong>A stunning tour de force acclaimed throughout the world <em>The Ginger Tree</em> is the spellbinding odyssey of one woman's strength and spirit in the face of terrifying odds.</strong></p><p>In 1903 a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed a military attaché in Peking. But soon after her arrival Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman scandalizing the British community. Casting her out of the European community her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.</p>