Tree of Heaven
R.C. Binstock
The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking. Kuroda, a junior officer trained as a botanist, has been left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese woman being assaulted by his soldiers, a common enough occurrence, he does the remarkable: he rescues her and gives her his protection. Li has no choice; she becomes his servant, and a strange intimacy, born of circumstances, ensues.
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781569470695
- Topics
- War and its atrocitiesPower imbalance and forced intimacySurvival during Japanese occupation of Nanking
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1996)
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