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In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she actually is exiled for an island leprosarium, where she actually is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her history. Her name is erased from her family records, and she actually is forced to choose a fresh one. To both thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Pass up Fuji.
Although drugs arrest the span of Pass up Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the exemplory case of their courage, she benefits insight in to the deep wellspring of strength she'll need to reclaim her independence. Written with perfection and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a stunning meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.
