Recently adapted into film by Martin Scorsese, this novel wrestles with similar questions
as The Poisonwood Bible, but in a very different era: seventeenth century Japan.
As a result of reading the latest from Kingsolver, whom I've worshipped ever since I read The
Poisonwood Bible, I've had one of those gifts that seem rare in adulthood - a transformative change of perspective in response to reading a book.