The evocative, bittersweet story of love and betrayal in the Far East-now a stunning Masterpiece Theatre dramatic series. Betrothed to a military attaché in Peking, twenty-year-old Mary MacKenzie sets sail for China with a frugal trousseau and a suffocating chaperone. But Mary, a young Scotswoman, is lively, curious, unspoiled. The year is 1903, and it will not be long before she scandalizes the British in Peking by falling into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman. Her odyssey begins in earnest when she is torn from her small daughter and turned out of the European community. How she survives in an ancient Eastern culture that barely tolerates women, much less Westerners, is the story of The Ginger Tree, a compelling novel that spans more than forty tumultuous years in the Far East-including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923. "Wonderful." -New York Times "Marvellous." —The Spectator (London) "Ripping yarn." -Daily Record (Scotland) "One of the few contemporary novels to show Japan as it was and is." -Japan Times Oswald Wynd was born in Tokyo to Scots missionaries. His novels include The Blazing Air and thrillers under the pen name Gavin Black. He lives in Scotland. Masterpiece Theatre's four-part dramatization of The Ginger Tree features rising stars Samantha Bond (as Mary), Daisuke Ryu (as Kentaro), and the noted actress Fumi Dan (as the countess), with a screenplay by Oscar winner Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Masterpiece Theatre is a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation,

ISBN: 9780060973322