β Scribed by Lee Langley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world's great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini's characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before killing herself. In America Joey grows up torn between two cultures, haunted, like his parents, by their me
**This Chinese children's book tells an ancient Chinese zen _koan_ and is great for parents who want to expose their kids to Taoist thinking.** **The stories of the Taoist teacher and storyteller _Chuang-Tzu_ have long been revered for their whimsical simplicity and childlike sense of wonder.** Ad
### Product Description The first book in the exciting new specially priced "Orphans" miniseries. Fate made her an orphan, yearning for the unconditional love of a real family. But a chance at a new life may not be enough for Butterfly to escape her painful past. "Butterfly" is the first in a four-
**A woman in the wrong place at the wrong time must rely on a tough-as-nails cop in this romantic thriller from the *New York Times*βbestselling author.** Pregnant and homeless, China Brown isn't a threat to anyone. But when she accidentally witnesses a murder, the killer attempts to silence