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Original, impeccably written and incredibly moving, The Teahouse Fire is a wonderful debut novel in the vein of Memoirs of a Geisha.'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate... What I asked for? Any life but this one.'When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukako.As Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukako's love affairs and subsequent marriage. 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 an outsider.A lushly detailed, spellbinding story, The Teahouse Fire is an unforgettable debut.
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Social life and customs, Literature, Fiction, Japanese tea ceremony, Americans, Japan, fiction, Fiction, general, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Manners and customs, Fiction, sagas, Young women, fictionPlaces
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The Teahouse Fire
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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Teahouse Fire
Jan 01, 2008, Vintage Books USA, Brand: Vintage Digital
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The Teahouse Fire
December 28, 2006, Highbridge Audio
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The Teahouse Fire
December 28, 2006, Riverhead Hardcover
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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. Told through the enchanting and unforgettable voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this is "a magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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