num_pages: 228
description: Jun Nagai, heir to a prominent Japanese spinning empire, takes his new English wife Kate back to Japan after some time in England absorbing Western technology. This is a marriage his arrogant and powerful mother Itsuko, who controls the family business, finds hard to accept and she sets out to destroy it. Jun, fighting for his independence, is pulled between the two cultures owing loyalty to both.
language: English
title: The Bonsai Tree
titlecomplete: The Bonsai Tree
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Ticknor & Fields