The Pearl Diver

Title

The Pearl Diver

Subject

Pearl divers -- Fiction. Women -- Japan -- Fiction. Leprosy -- Patients -- Fiction. Leprosy -- Hospitals -- Fiction. Japan -- Fiction.

Description

In 1948, a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver is in her fourth season of working hard to perfect the techniques of her age-old occupation. But her dreams of spending her life diving in the waters of the Seto Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers that she has leprosy.

Creator

Talarigo, Jeff

Publisher

Random House

Date

2004

Type

PS3620 .A525 P43

Identifier

2003.500.3607

Collection