The Pearl Diver
by Talarigo, Jeff
- Used
- first
- Condition
- First edition, New in dj,
- ISBN 10
- 0385510519
- ISBN 13
- 9780385510516
- Seller
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Shingletown, California, United States
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About This Item
New York;: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday), 2004. First edition, New in dj,. Rex Bonomelli. New York;: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday):, 2004. First edition, New in dj, 240 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Rex Bonomelli Was $18.95. A novel. In 1948 a nineteen year-old Japanese pearl diver is in her fourth diving season. She loves her work. When she discovers she has leprosy she is shipped-off to a small island seven miles away from her home. Though her case is a mild one, she is forbidden to return to the mainland. Other "patients" on the small island include a writer, a gardener, a poet and a painter. They give her insight into her own true nature and she is empowered to see through their affliction to the very human souls that lie beyond the disease. A moving novel about discovery and despair.
Synopsis
Jeff Talarigo, a former journalist, lived in a Palestinian refugee camp where he wrote several works of short fiction that were published in literary journals, including The Maryland Review , The Arkansas Review , and Chanteh . He has been writing and teaching English in Japan since the early 1990s, and lives with his wife and son on the island of Kyushu.
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- Bookseller
- Ziesings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22684
- Title
- The Pearl Diver
- Author
- Talarigo, Jeff
- Illustrator
- Rex Bonomelli
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385510519
- ISBN 13
- 9780385510516
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese (Doubleday)
- Place of Publication
- New York;
- Date Published
- 2004
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