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050 0 0 _aPS3570.S84
_bS77 2007
082 0 0 _aFIC TSU
100 1 _aTsukiyama, Gail
245 1 4 _aThe street of a thousand blossoms
_b: a novel
_c/ Gail Tsukiyama
260 _aNew York
_b: St. Martin's Press
_c, 2007
300 _a422 p.
_c; 25 cm.
520 _aIt is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh theater masks. But as the ripples of war spread to their quiet neighborhood, the brothers must put their dreams on hold - and forge their own paths in a new Japan. Meanwhile, the two young daughters of a renowned sumo master find their lives increasingly intertwined with the fortunes of their father's star pupil, Hiroshi. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers.
650 4 _aBrothers
_v--Fiction
651 0 _aTokyo (Japan)
_x--Fiction
655 7 _aHistorical fiction
655 7 _aLove stories
942 _cMO
999 _c270854
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