Talarigo, Jeff

The Pearl Diver

Nan A. Talese (Doubleday):
New York; 2004
First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
240 pp.
Cover artwork by: Rex Bonomelli

A novel. In 1948 a nineteen year-old Japanese pearl diver is in her fourth diving season. She loves her work. When she discovers she has leprosy she is shipped-off to a small island seven miles away from her home. Though her case is a mild one, she is forbidden to return to the mainland. Other “patients” on the small island include a writer, a gardener, a poet and a painter. #22684

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