The Ginger Tree
The Ginger Tree is a 1977 novel by Scottish novelist Oswald Wynd published in the UK by Collins Publishers. The novel was adapted into a 4-part TV series by the BBC and Japan's NHK for release in 1989,[1][2] and subsequently shown as part of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.[3] Because of the adaptation, the novel became Wynd's most famous.[1] The novel follows a Scottish woman who falls in love with a Japanese Count, and naval officer, and the culture of Japan, following her from 1903 to 1942.[4] Bond's character gives birth to the Count's illegitimate child and goes on after the child's abduction to work in a leading Japanese department store as the first western saleswoman. She later sets up her own store, only to be forced to leave when Japan becomes involved in war.
Reception
[edit]Kirkus Reviews was very positive about the novel, writing "Wynd maneuvers skillfully among Chinese and Japanese mores and landscapes--an acute selection from the author's apparently vast, engaged knowledge of the East. A completely diverting and moving tracery of the hardening destiny of a nation and the quiet shriveling of one heart."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Obituary: Oswald Wynd". The Independent. 5 August 1998. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ O'connor, John J. (13 October 1990). "Review/Television; In Which an Unhappy Wife Is Unhappier as a Concubine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ "Masterpiece Theatre: The Archive -- The Ginger Tree". PBS. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ a b "THE GINGER TREE by Oswald Wynd". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
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