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 baby girl will not fundamentally change things. Mary also made the acquaintance of a Japanese with whom she eventually pass 5 afternoon in a top of a hill temple ... Of the five afternoons, pregnancy will declare and therefore leave no doubt on this link adultery. Her husband put out and so she joined the Japan with the help of his Japanese lover and she gave birth to her son ... The rest I let you discover the ... The writer through Mary, the book gradually to what part the culture of Japan and the difficulty or impossibility for us Westerners to fully integrate it ... Accept remain a foreign despite past decades to live there, is probably the key that has allowed this woman to thrive there ... Nevertheless ... It will be "invited" to leave in 1941 and the story does not tell us whether Mary returned to live with her daughter in Scotland or if it was able to return to Japan after the war ... I would like to believe that she could return And you? ....
