[DeepL Translation - needs review] Winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award 2012, the Prix Femina Etranger 2012 and the Albatros Literature Prize 2014.
"On the ship, most of us were virgins."
So begins the touching story of a group of young women traveling from Japan to California at the beginning of the 20th century as picture brides to marry Japanese immigrants. Until their arrival, the women only know their future husbands from the glowing photos of the matchmakers, and they also have extre...
