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    "title": "Falling Blossom",
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    "description": "The tragic true love story of an English officer, Arthur Hart-Synnot and a Japanese woman, Masa Suzuki, played out against the background of World War One.\n\nThis is the beautiful, true story of a tragic love affair. When Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative British army officer met Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl, whilst on a military posting to Japan, the pair fell deeply and hopelessly in love. Masa was more than a \u2018temporary wife\u2019 like most of the other officer\u2019s Japanese girlfriends. Arthur described her as \u2018the supreme woman in the world.\u2019\n\nWhen he was recalled to England, then sent to Burma, and then to India, their relationship struggled on, in the face of opposition from her family, from the massive gap between their cultures, from the military and from the huge distances between them. Kept going by the many letters they both dedicated themselves to writing, they remained devoted to each other, despite seeing each other only for a few weeks over more than a decade.\n\nYet tragedy was to strike and after being horrifically wounded in World War One, Arthur was never able to return to his love. This is a unique picture of the world seen from two very different perspectives. Peter Pagnamenta tells this extraordinary tale in heart-rending detail, using Arthur\u2019s many letters to Masa, translated from Japanese by his co-author Momoko Williams and it is illustrated with photographs of the families.\n",
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