Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.
Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite-the tea ceremony-became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West.
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.“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties-each one resplendent with character and drama. The Teahouse Fire 3.48 (3,520 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) Ellis Avery List price: US16.00 Currently unavailable See our Closure FAQs Add to wishlist AbeBooks may have this title (opens in new window).
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. Original, impeccably written and incredibly moving, 'The Teahouse Fire' is a wonderful debut novel in the vein of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan, this novel is also a portrait of Japan as it opens its doors to the West.
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