Like 'Memoirs of a Geisha', 'The Teahouse Fire' is an utterly convincing recreation of a now lost world and a fascinating insight into the intricacies and intimacies of the tea ceremony. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening. But her feelings for her mistress are never reciprocated and as tensions mount in the household Aurelia begins to realise that to the world around her she will never be anything but a foreigner. The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of historyJapan as it opens its doors to the West. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted but he family who owns it: gradually falling in love with both the tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukato.Īs Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukato's love affairs and subsequent marriage. The Teahouse Fire AVERY, Ellis 3,519 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 1594489300 / ISBN 13: 9781594489303 Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2006 Condition: Fine Hardcover Save for Later From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. Set in the late nineteenth century at a turning point in Japan's relationship with the western world, 'The Teahouse Fire' is the story of Aurelia, a young French-American girl who, after the death of her mother, finds herself lost and alone in Japan and in need of a new family. Original, impeccably written and incredibly moving, 'The Teahouse Fire' is a wonderful debut novel in the vein of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'.
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