In 1999 Tsukiyama published a sequel in her fourth novel, The Language of Threads. In this novel, the character Pei arrives in Hong Kong in the 1930's together with a young orphan, Ji Shen, and lives in the home of Mrs Finch, an English expatriate. Yet the war with Japan changes everything. Pei works as a saitong (washer and ironer of richly embroidered cheongsams), then sets up her own tailoring business, where she begins to embroider the story of her life in silk.
Tsukiyama also published The Samurai's Garden (1996) and Night of Many Dreams (1998). Other books include: Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), A Hundred Flowers (2012).
Digital sources:
- http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/gail-tsukiyama (retrieved 20 March 2016)
- http://www.fictiondb.com/author/gail-tsukiyama~24090.htm (retrieved 20 March 2016)
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 15 June 2016).
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