The bowl with gold seams : a novel
Campbell, Ellen Prentiss
The bowl with gold seams : a novel / Ellen Prentiss Campbell - Baltimore, MD : Apprentice House : , c2016 - 221 p. ; : 23 cm.
Inspired by an unusual chapter in the history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1945, the State Department selected the resort to serve as the detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families. The novel tells Hazel Shaw's story of unexpected personal transformation - both as a young woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong consequences of that experience. The final events of the war challenge Hazel's beliefs about enemies and friends, victory and defeat, love and loyalty. In the ensuing years she remains haunted by memories. Long after the end of the war, an unexpected encounter causes Hazel to return to the hotel and she must confront her past, come to terms with her present life, and determine her future.
English
9781627200998
Detainment center---Fiction---United States---Japanese
World War, 1939-1945
FIC CAM
The bowl with gold seams : a novel / Ellen Prentiss Campbell - Baltimore, MD : Apprentice House : , c2016 - 221 p. ; : 23 cm.
Inspired by an unusual chapter in the history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1945, the State Department selected the resort to serve as the detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families. The novel tells Hazel Shaw's story of unexpected personal transformation - both as a young woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong consequences of that experience. The final events of the war challenge Hazel's beliefs about enemies and friends, victory and defeat, love and loyalty. In the ensuing years she remains haunted by memories. Long after the end of the war, an unexpected encounter causes Hazel to return to the hotel and she must confront her past, come to terms with her present life, and determine her future.
English
9781627200998
Detainment center---Fiction---United States---Japanese
World War, 1939-1945
FIC CAM
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