03486cam a2200409 4500 240160533 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781598874877 159887487X 9d023e7b-dae4-41be-bcd2-078eb974207f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 126116 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Avery, Ellis. The Teahouse Fire [Bridges Audiobook]. HighBridge Company, 2006. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 484MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 484MB. In the mid-nineteenth century, Japan's cultural traditions are changing. Taking shelter in a teahouse, an American orphan named Aurelia Bernard will witness some of the most profound of those changes. Barbara Caruso offers a signature rendering of this lush historical novel. As ever, her narration is finely nuanced and lapidary. Like a talented watercolorist, she tints the story with accent and characterization, from the exhausted French voice of Aurelia's dying mother to the musical Japanese intonations of Shin Yukako, Aurelia's friend and rival. A tea ceremony is a studied affair, and, accordingly, little moves quickly in this novel. But with Caruso to listen to, who's in a hurry? A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>The fates of two women—one American, one Japanese—become entwined in this sweeping novel of 19th century Japan on the cusp of radical change and westernization.</p> <p>The Japanese tea ceremony, steeped in ritual, is at the heart of this story of an American girl, adopted by Kyoto's most important tea master and raised as attendant and surrogate younger sister to his privileged daughter Yukako. Pasts shrouded in secrets and mysterious traditions rocked by modernization make THE TEAHOUSE FIRE a compelling and provocative story, lush in details and epic in scope.</p> <p>Original material © 2006 Ellis Avery. Recorded by arrangement with Jean V. Nagger Literary Agency, Inc.</p>. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Book. Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Audie Award Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-09 14:24:47. Caruso, Barbara. (p) 2006 HighBridge Company. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9d023e7b-dae4-41be-bcd2-078eb974207f http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126116-TheTeahouseFire.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126116-TheTeahouseFire.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9D023E7B-DAE4-41BE-BCD2-078EB974207F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126116-TheTeahouseFire.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126116-TheTeahouseFire.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9D023E7B-DAE4-41BE-BCD2-078EB974207F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)