· Moving back and forth through time and place, Kate Walbert recreates a world touched by the shadows of war and a society in which women fit their desires into prescribed roles. Unfolding in lyrical, seductive prose, The Gardens of Kyoto becomes a mesmerizing exploration of . Kate Walbert is the author of six previous books of fiction: His Favorites; The Sunken Cathedral; A Short History of Women, a New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Our Kind, a National Book Award finalist; The Gardens of Kyoto; and the story collection Where She www.doorway.ru work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The. The Gardens of Kyoto is an eloquent book and in important ways, a ghost story of those who have touched the lives of those who are left behind. The title alludes to a book, gifted to a young Ellen by her cousin and presumed love interest Randall, who, we quickly learn, was killed in the war. Kate Walbert is an extraordinary author. She has.
Kate Walbert is the author of She Was Like That: New and Collected Stories; His Favorites, one of The Atlantic Magazine's best books of ; The Sunken Cathedral; A Short History of Women, finalist for the LA Book Prize in Fiction, and one of the New York Times ten best books of ; Our Kind, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Gardens of Kyoto, and Where She Went. We believe stories carry our culture and ideas change the world. Our pioneering programming, grants and partnerships spark conversations and generate new ideas. The Gardens of Kyoto Kate Walbert, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Women Rule: Kate Walbert; The Woman Question.
One of the major themes probed by Kate Walbert in The Gardens of Kyoto is the emotional devastation wrought by war -- on the men who go off to fight and on those at home who love them. Discuss this theme as it plays out in the lives of Randall's father, Ellen, Ellen's sister Rita and her husband, Roger, and, six years later, Henry Rock, the handsome young lieutenant Ellen meets and instantly falls in love with just before he leaves for battle in the Korean War, who returns home with his body. Kate Walbert's fine, delicate prose captures voices that we don't hear much anymore, and she guides us from past to present, and from death to life, with affectionate detail and deep understanding. The Gardens of Kyoto is a ghost story, a mystery, a love story, and an intentionally modest chronicle of the middle part of this past century. With lyrical, seductive prose, Walbert spins several parallel stories of the emotional damage done by war. Like the mysterious arrangements of the intricate sand, rock, and gravel gardens of Kyoto, they gracefully assemble into a single, rich mosaic. Select Reviews “Readers in love with language will adore this book.” —USA Today.
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