As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, it may be time to lose yourself in a good book. Make a place on your bedside table for Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms.
Set in Japan before WWII and continuing through the following decades, it's the story of a family; in particular, two young brothers who are orphaned when their parents die in an accident. They grow to live quite different lives -- one as a sumo wrestler, the other a Noh mask creator.
Characters that might, at first blush, seem remote are rendered with full-fathoming grace by Tsukiyama -- giving us a memorable family, the story of their lives on a street of a thousand blossoms, and what came after.
written on Wednesday Sep 5, 2007
family,
saga,
book.
