Title: Tree of heaven
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, China, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: China
Time periods: 1937-1945
LC classification: PS3552.I573 T74 1995