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Alumni Association Home > Bookmarks   Print View The Scent of Sake The Scent of Sake By Joyce Lebra (B.A., M.A., Honorary Doctorate '96) Avon A Books, 2009 She was taught to obey...but she dreamed of an empire. The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, 19-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that a woman must "kill the self" or her life will be too difficult to bear.  In this male-dominated society, women may not even enter the brewery--and repressive tradition demands that Rie turn over her family's  business to the philanderer she was forced to marry.  She's even expected to raise his children by a geisha so they can eventually run the Omura enterprise. An epic and breathtaking saga that spans generations as it sweeps through the heart of a century, Joyce Lebra's The Scent of Sake is a vivid and powerful entry into another world...and an unforgettable portrait of a woman who would not let that world defeat her.

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