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Informationen zum Autor Ellis Avery studied the Japanese tea ceremony for five years in New York and Kyoto! and now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Village Voice! Kyoto Journal! LIT and Pacific Reader and has been performed at New York's Expanded Arts Theatre. She lives in New York City. Klappentext 'When I was nine! in the city now called Kyoto! I changed my fate. What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan! she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house. Zusammenfassung 'When I was nine! in the city now called Kyoto! I changed my fate. What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan! she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house.
