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Lädt ... The Bowl with Gold Seamsvon Ellen Prentiss Campbell
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"This is sharp, vivid, and gut-wrenching story-telling of the most powerful kind." -Catherine Mayo, author, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire Ellen Prentiss Campbell's debut novel, The Bowl with Gold Seams, is a moving, intimate story of unexpected personal transformations. An unusual chapter in the long history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania inspired this work of historical fiction: during the summer of 1945, the resort served as the unlikely detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families. The Bowl with Gold Seams tells Hazel Shaw's story as a young woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong consequences of that experience. The final events of the war challenge her beliefs about enemies and friends, victory and defeat, love and loyalty. In the ensuing years she remains haunted by memories. An unexpected encounter causes Hazel to return to the hotel long after the end of the war; she must confront her past, come to terms with her present life, and determine her future. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The story is told by Hazel Shaw, an imagined woman from Bedford Springs as the country entered WWII. As a recent high school graduate, her clerical skills gain her the position as secretary to the man placed in charge of the hotel's internment activities by the State Department. During that time Hazel's father dies, and she is widowed when her high school sweetheart husband is killed in the war. In her emotional turmoil she befriends one of the Japanese families interred at the hotel and mentors their adolescent daughter.
Much later when faced with a moral dilemma as a head of Quaker academy, she attends a conference and meets the woman she had supported as an adolescent.
The bowl with gold seams which gives title to the book refers to a piece of kintsugi pottery, which is porcelain bowl intentionally broken them mended with a golden glue. The resultant piece is revered as more beautiful and more valuable than the original....what is broken becomes more beautiful.
Hazel has a such a bowl on her mantel in her adult home, it's provenance provides the story of Hazel's involvement with the Japanese family. It also serves as a metaphor for one of the many themes in the story.
The language is beautiful, the complex characters are well drawn with keen psychological insight. And the story reveals to us a forgotten chapter of WWII history.
The Bedford Hotel is a real place, closed for about 30 years, it is now reopened as a luxury hotel.
I'm surprised that this book has not received more attention. ( )