by Oswald Wynd · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070309054
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«Une odeur de gingembre» is the historical novel by Oswald Wynd, published by Folio in paperback (480 pages, in French).
In 1903, Mary Mackenzie travels to Peking to marry a British military attaché. Her curiosity about Chinese life after the Boxer Rebellion sets her against the European community. After an affair with a Japanese officer, her husband rejects her and she flees to Japan; her story is known through her diary and letters to her mother and her friend.
Novel originally published in English as «The Ginger Tree» in 1977; this French edition from Folio dates from 2006.
For readers of historical fiction and narrative set in Asia, as well as for book clubs, due to its female protagonist and cultural clash.
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