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In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan's Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion. PRAISE: "Hypnotic . . . Talarigo's prose is as evocative as a Hokusai woodcut." --Los Angeles Times "At once exquisite and horrifying, a piece of delicacy forged out of pain and the struggle against numbness. . . . There is no denying the loveliness of this book. . . . In Miss Fuji, [Talarigo] has given us a genuine hero." --Minneapolis Star-Tri

Who reads The Pearl Diver : a Novel?

Author

Jeff Talarigo

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400034918

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.72 / 5 (1,283 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14