On a moonlit island tea-house, a young American watches a girl perform the storm dance and soon takes her as his wife. Yuki is bright, proud and mysterious about her past, and their marriage, begun almost as a transaction, grows into something neither expected as the world outside presses in.
The 1901 novel that made Winnifred Eaton, writing as Onoto Watanna, a popular name; its view of Japan is very much of its era. Download the free EPUB.