![]() ![]() Like 'Memoirs of a Geisha', 'The Teahouse Fire' is an utterly convincing recreation of a now lost world and a fascinating insight into the intricacies and intimacies of the tea ceremony. ![]() But her feelings for her mistress are never reciprocated and as tensions mount in the household Aurelia begins to realise that to the world around her she will never be anything but a foreigner. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted but he family who owns it: gradually falling in love with both the tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukato.Īs Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukato's love affairs and subsequent marriage. Set in the late nineteenth century at a turning point in Japan's relationship with the western world, 'The Teahouse Fire' is the story of Aurelia, a young French-American girl who, after the death of her mother, finds herself lost and alone in Japan and in need of a new family. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A. ![]() ![]() Original, impeccably written and incredibly moving, 'The Teahouse Fire' is a wonderful debut novel in the vein of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. The Teahouse Fire AVERY, Ellis 3,519 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 1594489300 / ISBN 13: 9781594489303 Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2006 Condition: Fine Hardcover Save for Later From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. TwitterLess than an hour after an anonymous tipster came forward on Tuesday, law enforcement officials apprehended Francisco Oropesa, the fugitive believed to have gunned down five people in a cold-blooded massacre last week, according to authorities. ![]()
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