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Anglický jazyk
The Journalist's Children
Autor: Richard Varner
Linda Hara is a foreign correspondent
based in Asia and has spent thirty
years being shot at, tear gassed and
stoned. Her prize winning work about
Japan has earned her a lucrative
book deal letting Linda retire in
luxury, but she almost...
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Linda Hara is a foreign correspondent
based in Asia and has spent thirty
years being shot at, tear gassed and
stoned. Her prize winning work about
Japan has earned her a lucrative
book deal letting Linda retire in
luxury, but she almost dies in an
unforeseen midlife crisis, which
sensitizes Linda to what she's
missed in life-a family of her
own. Several colleagues have
adopted Japanese children, and
she tries to do so only to be
forced to face her own troubled
past. No sooner is a two-year-old
girl, Aiko, placed with Linda, than
the girl's grandmother, Haruko,
tries to get Aiko back. During the
Japanese economic bubble, Haruko
was one of the world's wealthiest
woman, and she enlists the help of
Kato Keikichi, powerful head of the
Kato Foundation. Linda gives up her
book deal and leaves Japan, broke
but not broken, escaping with Aiko
to America. Linda now intends to
adopt Aiko under Illinois law, which
Japanese courts will recognize, thus
circumventing the grandmother, who
Linda learns is severely demented.
Unfortunately, Linda needs the help of
her estranged father, Dr. Art Schneider,
a veteran of the Battle of Okinawa
and virulently anti-Japanese. The
influential Kato recruits Akagihara
Gyo, a muckraking journalist, to track
Linda down forcing her and Aiko back
to Japan to fight for the destiny of the
little girl. The conniving Kato has
his own conspiracy underway and
will hesitate at nothing, including
murder, to assure Aiko is returned to
her real family.
- Vydavateľstvo: Xlibris
- Rok vydania: 2010
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781450028332
