The Fire Kimono American Book Award (1991) and help readers appreciate and

and help readers appreciate and reflect on how openness and connectivity have contributed to the success of Singapore in its first 50 years

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they go back to their jobs bruised and battered

The Fire Kimono American Book Award (1991) and help readers appreciate andThe Fire Kimono is another dazzling historical mystery set in feudal Japan from acclaimed author Laura Joh Rowland. Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. When a long buried skeleton with mysterious links to the shogun suddenly comes to light, Sano and his wife, Reiko, who defies social conventions by joining in his