false 2726564 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 124831 9 2752167 12 4 2004 The Pearl Diver total:284|5:7|4:7|3:2|2:3|1:1| 284 1034 391 69 71906 3.60 445 127 18200136 1001935 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.65 265 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 1 false Fri Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Mar 20 11:55:35 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:28:28 -0700 2008 Title: The Pearl Diver
Genre: Historical fiction
Publication Info: DoubleDay. New York. 2004.
Recommended Age: 14 and up

Plot Summary: A 19-year-old Japanese girl who dives for pearls to help her family with the cost of living is diagnosed with le...more...]]> 52175751 322807 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 1 false Fri Apr 10 07:00:14 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 07:00:45 -0700 2009 23673264 787995 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 3 1 false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 07:13:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 14:30:59 -0700 2008
I learned a great deal about leprosy that I did not know. This book also made me think about how fear ...more...]]> 43930017 1688445 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 0 false Thu Jan 22 08:58:16 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:58:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 43746787 1935827 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 3 0 false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:54:34 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:55:20 -0800 2009
Miss Fuji, the pearl diver,...more...]]> 77995038 43533 924936 0385510519 9780385510516 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179505770m/924936.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179505770s/924936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924936.The_Pearl_Diver_A_Novel 3.60 15 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 3 0 false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:05:31 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:34:05 -0800 2009
The unfairness of the situation is what struck me the most. Throughout the telling, there are snippets of information about the health administration's response to change...more...]]> 71863605 2224534 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 1 false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 06:50:34 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 12:11:49 -0700 2009 The story takes place in Japan and starts out in the year 1938. You are introduced to the world of pearl diving...and a 19 year old girl who is just startin...more...]]> 68994605 2095400 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 0 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:11:16 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 14:36:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59325783 1582977 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 16:01:17 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 22:54:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12973528 353546 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jan 20 12:40:53 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 12:48:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 41602321 1248209 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 2 0 false Wed Jan 14 18:33:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 09:14:19 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 18:33:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 73286371 1891647 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 3 1 false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:28:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:33:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 72034136 412896 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 0 false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 15:00:43 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 15:06:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6671693 133812 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 3 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 18:08:13 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 05:33:23 -0800 2007 more...]]> 40676675 1540421 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 0 0 false Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Dec 22 09:47:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 09:50:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 11407429 687180 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 17:13:36 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 17:43:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 81845489 2688248 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 23 06:34:15 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 23 06:41:09 -0800 2009 39160605 1050933 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 19:23:15 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:11:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 72221848 820802 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 07:25:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 07:29:33 -0700 2009 72821618 232258 124831 1400034914 9781400034918 64 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865m/124831.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171881865s/124831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124831.The_Pearl_Diver 3.64 284 The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium. Numbered artifacts like "An old map of Honshu" and "A blank white urn" spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering. The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself. Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair. --Regina Marler]]> 2004 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 16:45:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 16:48:26 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2726564