The Gardens of Kyoto

From the National Book Award nominated, New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Women and The Sunken Cathedral , Walbert’s beautiful and heartbreaking novel about a young woman coming of age in the long shadow of World War II—“An intricately plotted, thrillingly imagined ­narrative...A masterpiece” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Forty years after enduring the Second World War as a young woman, Ellen relates the events of this turbulent period, beginning with the death of her