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...that’s been told over andover in other forms: exceptional youngwoman confronts the world, falters atfirst, but eventually finds herself. In thisversion, Haruko is a privileged but normalgirl growing up in Tokyo duringWorld War II. (As Schwartz writes withcharacteristic limpness, “One might saythat my childhood insularity was a formof hereditary protection in whose shade,like a pale, delicate mushroom, I grew.”)She excels at sports, and one fateful daymeets and beats the Crown Prince in agame of tennis. The Prince falls in lovewith her beautiful spirit, and so beginsthe rest...