The Samurai’s Garden - Gail Tsukiyama

Written by Gail Tsukiyama
Read by David Shih
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Tantor Media Date: March 2017
Duration: 8 hours 49 minutes
Sample narration here: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/samurais-garden-a-novel/317659

Summary:
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a twenty-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu’s secret and gains not only physical strength but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu’s generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu’s soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.