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Название книги: The Favorites
Автор(ы): Mary Waters
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Favorites-164377.html
© 2009
For my motherThe majority of my thanks goes to two people: my editor, Alexis Gargagliano, for her invaluable help and vision, and my agent, Joy Harris, for her many patient reads. I am also grateful for the support and encouragement of family, colleagues, and friends.
Part 1
chapter 1
It was an early morning in June 1978, and the Ueno neighborhood was just beginning to stir.This was an old neighborhood, far enough north of the city’s center to have the feel of a small village. It lay in the shadow of high green hills that surrounded the city of Kyoto like a giant horseshoe, trapping the moisture from its four rivers. A century ago, before the emperor’s seat had moved to Tokyo (and before smog and pollution made their appearance), this moist climate had been considered ideal for the refined senses of the nobility: it captured the subtle fragrances of each season and fostered the most delicate complexions in the country. The downside, of course, was that Kyoto summers were brutally humid.Fortunately the air was
Название книги: The Favorites
Автор(ы): Mary Waters
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Favorites-164377.html
© 2009
For my motherThe majority of my thanks goes to two people: my editor, Alexis Gargagliano, for her invaluable help and vision, and my agent, Joy Harris, for her many patient reads. I am also grateful for the support and encouragement of family, colleagues, and friends.
Part 1
chapter 1
It was an early morning in June 1978, and the Ueno neighborhood was just beginning to stir.This was an old neighborhood, far enough north of the city’s center to have the feel of a small village. It lay in the shadow of high green hills that surrounded the city of Kyoto like a giant horseshoe, trapping the moisture from its four rivers. A century ago, before the emperor’s seat had moved to Tokyo (and before smog and pollution made their appearance), this moist climate had been considered ideal for the refined senses of the nobility: it captured the subtle fragrances of each season and fostered the most delicate complexions in the country. The downside, of course, was that Kyoto summers were brutally humid.Fortunately the air was
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