num_pages: 312
description: In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attaché in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community. Casting her out of the European community, her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone, Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia, including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.A bestseller in England, this bittersweet story of love and betrayal in the Far East is the source of the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries.
language: English
title: The Ginger Tree
titlecomplete: The Ginger Tree
genres: Historical, Asian Literature, Literature, Classics, Japan, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, China, Romance
ratings_count: 3698
places: Beijing, Japan, Tokyo, Peking, China
publisher: Eland