Falling Blossom

Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman:

"The essence of this inexpressibly beautiful story will remain with me, I believe, for the rest of my life. This exquisitely crafted account of the loves and lives of Arthur and Masa, Violet and Kiyoshi - such very ordinary names, yet names that conceal extraordinary passions and confusions - is a tone po...