books.google.co.uk - Long before Puccini wrote his masterpiece, the tale of the poor Japanese girl abandoned by her foreign lover had been taken up by numerous Western writers as part of the wave of Japonisme in late-19th-century Europe. But was there a "real" Madame Butterfly? Following the tragic trail back to its roots...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Madame_Butterfly.html?id=rV3VeiACJuYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMadame Butterfly
