EAN: 9780857057563

THE OFFICE OF GARDENS AND PONDS - DIDIER DECOIN...

The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns
in the murky waters of the Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to the
imperial palace and preserve the crucial patronage that everyone in the village depends
upon?Step forward Miyuki  Katsuro's grief-struck widow and the only remaining person in the
village who knows anything about carp. She alone can undertake the long  perilous journey to
the imperial palace  balancing the heavy baskets of fish on a pole across her shoulders  and
ensure her village's future.So Miyuki sets off. Along her way she will encounter a host of
remarkable characters  from prostitutes and innkeepers  to warlords and priests with evil in
mind. She will endure ambushes and disaster  for the villagers are not the only people fixated
on the fate of the eight magnificent carp. But when she reaches the Office of Gardens and Ponds
Miyuki discovers that the trials of her journey are far from over. For in the Office of Gardens
and Ponds  nothing is quite as it seems  and beneath its veneer of refinement and ritual  there
is an impenetrable barrier of politics and snobbery that Miyuki must overcome if she is to
return to Shimae.

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