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Potions and Paper Cranes
Written by Jean Bartlett, originally published in Mercury News
Feb 04, 2014
Potions and Paper Cranes
Written by Jean Bartlett, originally published in Mercury News
Feb 04, 2014
“Sulis is a young woman selling potions in Surabaya’s harbor district,” reads the jacket synopsis of Lan Fang’s “Potions and Paper Cranes.” “She meets Sujono, a coolie with dreams of becoming a freedom fighter and whose passion for Matsumi, a geisha called to Java by a Japanese general, is destined to ruin all of them. In ‘Potions and Paper Cranes,’ each tells the story of their lives during the end of WWII and Indonesia’s transition from a Dutch colony to an independent republic.” On Saturday, the book’s U.S. publisher will be on hand at Florey’s to present and discuss the late author’s work.
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