"Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties--each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious."--Maxine Hong Kingston
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 [...]
"As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it."--Emma Donoghue, author of "Room"
Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young Ameri[...]