Butterfly's Shadow - Hardcover
In Nagasaki, a fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her client. Lieutenant Pinkerton approaches to find the female he’s purchased for a few weeks. He sails away. She waits, aching for his return... In America with his father and new stepmother, Joey is torn between two cultures. Each one is haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything. They struggle towards self-discovery amid the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century – the Depression, Pearl Harbor, the havoc of war. And then time stops in Nagasaki... The deadly dust of the A-bomb settles and Joey finds his way back to the home of his memories, searching for traces of the mother who has for so long lived only in his dreams.
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Lee Langley is the author of nine highly praised novels including Changes of Address (shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize) and Persistent Rumours (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' prize). Her most recent book was A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire, a volume of short stories, poetry and journalism. Her adaptation 'The Tenth Man', based on a Graham Greene story, was made into an award-winning movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.
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"Langley's detailed descriptions of war blaze with brilliance" -- Arifa Akbar * Independent * "A compelling portrait of a man in search of his lost self" -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * "Beautifully written and vividly imagined, this is an impressive achievement" -- Jessica Mann * Literary Review * "Lee Langley's big, ambitious new novel is a riveting read... and a deeply moving human story" -- Deborah Moggach "A lovely novel... fragile and beautiful and so finely wrought" -- Ruth Padel
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1444806572
- ISBN 13 9781444806571
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages440
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