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Tree of Heaven
1997 Nominated

Tree of Heaven

R.C. Binstock

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking.

Kuroda, a reluctant officer trained as a botanist, is left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese refugee about to be raped by his soldiers, a common occurrence, he does the remarkable: he rescues her and gives her his protection. Li has no choice but to accept it; she becomes his servant, and an extraordinary intimacy ensues.

Psychologically taut, etched in spare, compelling prose, a deep yet dynamic novel of safety and risk, guilt and captivity, power and love.

RC Binstock

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR R.C.
Binstock

R.C. Binstock was raised in Lexington, Mass; USA . His wife, Maja Maciak, immigrated from Poland in 2008. Since graduating from Harvard College with a degree in biological anthropology, R.C. worked as a technical writer in the IT industry.

He started writing stories around age eight. Ann Beattie has been his writing mentor and guide for a very long time.

R.C has three commercially published books: the story collection The Light of Home (Atheneum) and his novels Tree of Heaven and The Soldier (Soho Press). Following a lengthy interruption in his writing career he began a renewed effort to write and be read, leading to the publication of Swift River in 2014, Tree of Heaven (author’s edition) in 2015, Native Child in 2016, and The Vanished in 2018.

R.C. Binstock was raised in Lexington, Mass; USA . His wife, Maja Maciak, immigrated from Poland in 2008. Since graduating from Harvard College with a degree in biological anthropology, R.C. worked as a technical writer in the IT industry.

He started writing stories around age eight. Ann Beattie has been his writing mentor and guide for a very long time.

R.C has three commercially published books: the story collection The Light of Home (Atheneum) and his novels Tree of Heaven and The Soldier (Soho Press). Following a lengthy interruption in his writing career he began a renewed effort to write and be read, leading to the publication of Swift River in 2014, Tree of Heaven (author’s edition) in 2015, Native Child in 2016, and The Vanished in 2018.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Author
R.C. Binstock
Publisher
Soho Books
Nominating Library
Springfield - USA

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