books by Jeff Talarigo

books by Jeff Talarigo

books:

Jeff Talarigo

Die Perlentaucherin
Jeff Talarigo

Btb, 2007

The Ginseng Hunter: Library Edition
Jeff Talarigo

Playaway, 2008

The Pearl Diver: A Novel

Jeff Talarigo

RB Large Print, 2004

Book description
From Publishers Weekly: This unusual debut novel set in 1940s postwar Japan renders brutality and intolerance in quiet, lyrical prose. When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is ...

Der GinsengjSger
Jeff Talarigo

Luchterhand Literaturvlg., 2008

The Ginseng Hunter: A Novel

Jeff Talarigo

Nan A. Talese, 2008

Beautifully written
This book was a quick read for me. I couldn't put it down. We don't know anyone's name, but you don't even realize it because the images are written so well you feel like you are with him. We have a Chinese man who lives on his family farm and hunts for ginseng for his ...

The Pearl Diver

Jeff Talarigo

Anchor, 2005

Poignant
Extremely well written, The Pearl Diver is a fictional recounting of life in a Japanese Leprosarium. The story is presented through "artifacts" that tell the tale of a 19 year old girl who is striken with leprosy & consigned to isolation from the world on an island ...