Set outside the new capital of Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration and in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, The Painting is a richly imagined story of four characters whose lives are delicately and powerfully entwined: Ayoshi, the painter, pines for her lover as she dutifully attends to her husband; Ayoshi's husband, Hayashi, a government official who's been disfigured in a deadly fire, has his own well of /5(27). The Painting [Schuyler, Nina] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Painting. · Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Painting () is the debut novel by award-winning author Nina Schuyler. Japan, a woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. Secretly, she wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's headed for Europe.
Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ), was a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. It was also selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Best Books of , and dubbed a "fearless debut" by MSNBC and a "great debut" by the Rocky Mountain News. Nina Schuyler: I think I'm drawing on the writer experience of writing a novel where the characters over time become so alive and real. She's spent a year translating this novel, day in and day out, sitting with this character Jiro, trying to figure out his psychology, his motivations, his intentions, his strengths, his weaknesses, his. Nina Schuyler Writer. About Me: My first novel, The Painting, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and was named a "Year's Finest: Best Book" by the San Francisco Chronicle and a fearless debut by MSNBC. I also write a monthly column for Fiction Advocate.
A cornucopia of stories, woven intricately together by one exquisite painting, flows throughout Nina Schuyler's debut novel, each one dependent on the other, yet shining on its own. The Painting opens in Japan in , when the country was beginning to cast off its centuries of isolation and open itself to western influence. Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Painting () is the debut novel by award-winning author Nina Schuyler. Japan, a woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. Secretly, she wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's headed for Europe. Nina Schuyler, Author. Algonquin $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. The bowls make their way to Paris, where the painting is discovered by Jorgen, a disabled.
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