The Persimmon Tree COOKERY AND FOOD A seductive stranger

A seductive stranger

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whose worst discriminations have until now been kept at bay by the family’s economic privilege

Sweet as gingerbread and bitterly dark as heart's blood' Angela Slatter

The Persimmon Tree COOKERY AND FOOD A seductive strangerSet among the Pacific islands and in the Indian Ocean, The Persimmon Tree tells the very personal and often romantic stories of men and women caught up in larger events in this case starting with the Japanese invasion of Java and the Dutch exodus of the region. The story spans from 1942 and the fall of Singapore and the American landings at Guadalcanal to the ongoing fight against the Japanese for supremacy in the region. The story follows the