Woman Running in the Mountains - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (Translator), Lauren Groff (Introduction by)Publish date:2022-02-22Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681375977ISBN-10:1681375974UPC:9781681375977Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Feminist, Women, Family LifeSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKJ35N65N
Woman Running in the Mountains
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681375977ISBN-10:1681375974UPC:9781681375977Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Feminist, Women, Family LifeSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKJ35N65N
Yūko Tsushima (1947-2016) is considered one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation. She is best known for her novel Mountain of Fire and her short-story collection The Shooting Gallery. Much of her work is influenced by the oral epics and tales of pre-modern Japan, as well as her own experience as a single mother. Her father was the famous Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, who...
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