Naokao tried to escape twice, and succeed the second time, where she fled to a monastery where she gave birth to a girl.

As someone who has lived in Japan, married to a Japanese, and watches plenty of Japanese TV, my personal opinion is that Woman in the White Kimono is so much better.Moreover, it lends a greater understanding to the choices that Naoko made and, eventually, Jimmy Kovac too.

Esta historia nos permite viajar a Japón, a finales de los años cincuenta, en donde conoceremos a Naoko Nakamura, una joven nipona que rompe la tradición de aceptar un matrimonio concertado, rechazando a su prometido para casarse con un marinero norteamericano.Ana Johns does a great job portraying post-WWII and describing the relationship between America and Japan. The book goes back and forth between the present time in the United States to Japan in the 1950's, where the main character, Naoko Nakamura, falls in love with a "gaijin" (an American) sailor. Very good indeed -a moving story well written, enough tension to keep you turning the pages and just the right length. America - Present day Tori Kodachrome finds a letter containing a shocking revelation in which she questions everything about her father and her family to this point. Naoko’s story was the more interesting of the two, so I was glad that the author devoted more time to it and was able to really flesh it out.

Wanting to find out more, she found the house from an address and a name from a marriage certificate. Thank you Edelweiss, Park Row Publishing, and the author, Ana Johns, for giving me an opportunity to read an early copy of this beautiful book in exchange for my honest opinion. La mujer del kimono blanco” es el debut literario de Ana Johns, y vaya que lo ha hecho por todo lo alto. This is a heartfelt story because it happened to so many Japanese women who suffered from the ingrained prejudices in the US and in Japan.We stand on a cultural fault line, the fracture running miles deep, and the potential aftermath catastrophic. In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home. Present Day America, Tori Kovac is caring for her dying father and is given a letter from her father about another life he lived prior to marrying her mother. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. Tori, has been given a letter by her father, written to Naoka (Cricket) which blows a hole in Tori’s own image of her father, who had never disclosed this person he loved and the daughter he had fathered (Little Bird).

Nu e o bijuterie lingvistică, dar e scrisă din suflet, e documentată, și ne face martorii unor orori care chiar au avut loc. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage secures her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community. Neputință, mânie, consternare, mai ales că e vorba despre niște prunci cărora li s-a refuzat dreptul la viață. Full review will come later but in short this was heart breaking, beautifully written, a beautiful story and reminded me of “Three Souls” meets “The Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo.E o creatura liniară, care călătorește într-o singură direcție, constant chiar și atunci când trece prin durere. The author leaves a hint of ambiguity about Little Bird’s survival since the grave marker is written in red kanji. In the present time, Tori Kovac is cleaning out her father's home following his death, and she finds a mysterious letter that may mean that her father had a life before he married her mother - one that evidently involved his time in Japan decades earlier. I struggled with some aspects of the Japanese social structure and values of those times and the role of Naoko’s grandmother. I would recommend reading this novel if you love historical fiction and/or interested in Japanese and American history.