Madame Chrysantheme (Volume 1)

A lacquered gate swings open onto the misty streets of Nagasaki, where the ancient and the modern brush shoulders and nothing is ever quite as it seems. In this evocative nineteenth-century novel, the boundaries between traveller and native, longing and belonging, are as delicate-and as easily shattered-as a chrysanthemum petal. At once a travel memoir and a cross-cultural romance, the narrative immerses readers in the enigmatic beauty and contradictions of Meiji era Japan, capturing the fl...