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Recorded Books, 2004. Book. Very Good. 5 audio cassettes in original cardboard case. Slight wear to case. Cassettes are in excellent condition. NOT a former library copy. Running time: 7.5 hrs. From Publishers Weekly: "This unusual debut novel set in 1940s postwar Japan renders brutality and intolerance in quiet, lyrical prose. When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is banished to Nagashima, an island leprosarium, where she is told to change her name and forget her past. Nagashima is its own kind of civilization, where the renamed "Miss Fuji" must care for the sicker patients, which includes helping the island doctors perform forced, often late-term abortions. Treated with drugs that make her isolation unnecessary, Miss Fuji remains healthy ("she has only the two spots on her body.... Medals or curses, she isn't sure how to wear them"), but she is still not permitted to leave and remains…
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The Pearl Diver Analog audio cassette - 2004
by Jeff Talarigo; Read by Jenny Sterlin
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- Title The Pearl Diver
- Author Jeff Talarigo; Read by Jenny Sterlin
- Binding Analog Audio Cassette
- Volumes 5
- Language ENG
- Publisher Recorded Books
- Date April 20, 2004
- ISBN 9781402572777 / 1402572778
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 6.25 x 4.25 x 2.75 in (15.88 x 10.80 x 6.99 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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The Pearl Diver (Audio Cassette)
by Talarigo, Jeff
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781402572777 / 1402572778
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The Pearl Diver (Audio Cassette)
by Talarigo, Jeff
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781402572777 / 1402572778
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
- Item Price
-
$27.55$5.50 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Recorded Books, 2004. Book. Very Good. 5 audio cassettes in clamshell case. Slight wear to case. Cassettes are in excellent condition. NOT a former library copy. Running time: 7.5 hrs. From Publishers Weekly: "This unusual debut novel set in 1940s postwar Japan renders brutality and intolerance in quiet, lyrical prose. When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is banished to Nagashima, an island leprosarium, where she is told to change her name and forget her past. Nagashima is its own kind of civilization, where the renamed "Miss Fuji" must care for the sicker patients, which includes helping the island doctors perform forced, often late-term abortions. Treated with drugs that make her isolation unnecessary, Miss Fuji remains healthy ("she has only the two spots on her body.... Medals or curses, she isn't sure how to wear them"), but she is still not permitted to leave and remains a captive…
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$27.55
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