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The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Noriko "Nori" Kamiza is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. But...

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Main Author: Lemmie, Asha (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Dutton, [2021]
Subjects:
Racially mixed children > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Japanese Americans > Fiction.
Illegitimate children > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Japan > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) > Fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • Part I. Water song ; The boy with the violin ; Hikari (light) ; "Ave Maria" ; Delphinium ; Ame (rain)
  • Part II. Exile ; Tree song ; Impasse ; Sonata ; Fear no evil ; The only thing immortal
  • Part III. Traitor's requiem ; Night song ; Aurora
  • Part IV. Skin ; But nowhere is home ; Chrysanthemum.

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