Plum Wine

Inheriting a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped in sheets of calligraphy-covered paper following the death of her friend and colleague Michiko, Barbara Jefferson, an American teaching at a Tokyo university, hires an enigmatic translater named Seiji to unravel the mysteries of Michiko's life and the hidden world of the hibakusha, Horishima survivors. Reprint. 42,500 first printing.