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The Tree Doctor
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback
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The Tree Doctor
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self

When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother’s garden—convinced it contains a kind of visual puzzle—and the dormant cherry tree within it.

Caught between tending to an unwell parent and the weight of obligation to her distant daughters and husband, she becomes isolated and unmoored. She soon starts a torrid affair with an arborist who is equally fascinated by her mother’s garden, and together they embark on reviving it. Increasingly engrossed by the garden, and by the awakening of her own body, she comes to see her mother''s illness as part of a natural order in which things are perpetually living and dying, consuming and being consumed. All the while, she struggles to teach (remotely) Lady Murasaki’s eleventh-century novel, The Tale of Genji, which turns out to resonate eerily with the conditions of contemporary society in the grip of a pandemic.

The Tree Doctor is a powerful, beautifully written novel full of bodily pleasure, intense observation of nature, and a profound reckoning with the passage of time both within ourselves and in the world we inhabit.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781644452776
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1644452774
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
209mm
Højde:
140mm
Forlag:
Graywolf Press
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 2024
Forfatter(e):
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