Tree of heaven
By: R.C. Binstock.
Publisher: Soho
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: China -- History -- 1937-1945 -- Fiction.
Description: The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking. Kuroda, a junior officer trained as a botanist, has been left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese woman being assaulted by his soldiers, a common enough occurrence, he does the remarkable: he rescues her and gives her his protection. Li has no choice; she becomes his servant, and a strange intimacy, born of circumstances, ensues.