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Book Description:
Sword and Blossom tells the tragic true story of an extraordinary love affair that began when a young Army officer fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early years of the twentieth century. Based on a treasure trove of more than eight hundred letters, it chronicles Arthur Hart- Synnot and Masa Suzuki's attempts to make a life together despite long periods of separation, racial prejudice, and political turbulence. Their doomed relationship, like that of their countries, was part of a confused age of extremes and contradictions, of violence and beauty, and of destinies etched out amid the conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century.
中文簡介：
《寶劍和鮮花》講述了一個真實而悲情的故事，一段不同尋常的愛情。這段愛情開始于二十世紀初期，一名年輕的美國陸軍軍官和一個日本女子墜入了愛河。通過八百多封珍藏的信札，這本書按照時間順序記敘了亞瑟·哈特·辛諾特（Arthur Hart- Synnot）和鈴木麻紗（Masa Suzuki）不顧長期分離、種族偏見、政治動蕩，拼盡全力地為共同生活所做的努力。他們命中注定的姻緣就像他們的國家一樣，是那個充滿極端和矛盾、暴力和美麗的混沌時代的一部分，也是二十世紀上半葉在沖突漩渦中釀成的宿命。
About Author:
Peter Pagnamenta is a writer and television documentary maker, with a special interest in Japan. He conceived and wrote the eight part BBC series 'Nippon', an archive and testimony history of Japan's recovery after 1945, as well as 'Bubble Trouble', about Japan in the 1990s. Other series for the BBC include the twentieth century industrial history, 'All Our Working Lives', for which he wrote the book with Richard Overy, and the 26-part 'People's Century'. He is a former editor of 'Panorama'.
Momoko Williams was born and brought up in Japan and came to Britain in 1966 after graduating from Meiji University, Tokyo. She has coordinated and produced programs for Japanese broadcasters in Britain and Japan. She worked on the major NHK series 'The 20th Century', and 'Pacific War'. She is interested in Anglo-Japanese cultural connections and initiated and produced the photographic exhibition 'Japanese in Britain 1863-2001'. She is married to an Englishman and lives in London.
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