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The Ginger Tree

ISBN: 0060973323

Title: The Ginger Tree

Author: Oswald Wynd

KDL Description:

In 1903 China, a restless young Scotswoman enters into an adulterous affair with a Japanese nobleman, beginning an odyssey of scandal that spans two world wars.

Amazon Description:

A bestseller in England, this bittersweet story of love and betrayal in the Far East is the source of the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries.

In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attachÉ in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community. Casting her out of the European community, her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone, Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia, including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.