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  • Gem February 1  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    At first I was reluctant, I do not like the kind épistolaire.Et then through the pages, I discovered a fascinating story by both feelings by discovering the habits and customs of another country. This is actually a novel "extraordinary" must-rea
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  • Beautiful story in the form of diary  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    This beautiful novel by an author I do not know enchanted me: it is not easy to write in diary and letters but in this case, the story is very successful. It happens mostly in Asia, especially China and Japan over World War background, and tells the
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  • An unusual book  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    This is the story of a very young woman, but we are given to see old and "thicken" through a life for the least unusual. She left Scotland (his native land) for China and marry a man she barely knows. It is not really happy and the birth of a ba
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  • An overwhelming smell  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    In 1903, a young Scottish girl, sailed for China post résolte Boxer and European massacre in legations, to marry a virtually unknown officer of the british empire. Fate will leave him all the paths traced by its status of women and social class. His
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  • The story of an unusual life for an extraordinary character  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    By Lisa. All the rave reviews of this book really made me want to read it and I admit to not being disappointed. Despite beginning a bit long and slow (but surely necessary to highlight the wealth of upcoming events ...) is entered quickly in the his
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  • mesmerizing 3  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    The novel is built now on the epistolary mode, sometimes on the mode of the diary. But this does not discourage future reader. The path of history is clear since it is always the heroine, Mary, who writes. "A ginger smell" starts it's an English
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  • A moment of happiness ...  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    I am reading the saga of this young Scottish who has just arrived in Japan after living a boat trip from England to China, and who will live an unusual and exciting history in a far east shaken by war. What will she live on Japanese territory? I take
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  • Beautiful original story  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    Beautiful story that transports us to another time, at the other end of the world. Narration in two forms (letters or diary), which leaves us free to imagine what is happening between two writings. How frustrating that the author has not written anot
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  • An upsetting woman's fate  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    "A ginger odor" is both a diary and an epistolary novel (one way because the player discovers that the letters written by the heroine and never those it receives). So through his own writings we met Mary Mackenzie, Scottish 20 year old who in 19
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  • Roman of great finesse  

    A smell of ginger (Pocket Book)
    Through her diary and the letters she sends to her mother and a friend, we follow the story of Mary, Scottish bride to expatriate, it will join China in the early twentieth century. Gradually, at the risk of being excluded from good society, she will
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