Kristine Brancolini’s Reviews > The Samurai's Garden > Status Update

This is a beautiful and thought-provoking book, set in the Japanese countryside from late 1937-late 1938. It is narrated by a young man, Stephen, recovering from tuberculosis, staying in his family’s beach house with the family’s long time caretaker and gardener Matsu. The two become friends But world war is coming. Stephen’s mother is Chinese, living in Hong Kong, and his father is Japanese living in Kobe.