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