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Overview
A brilliant--and internationally acclaimed--novel about a man abandoning the comforts of middle-aged convention for life with a sexy, feckless model half his age, and the company of her grandmother, fresh out of jail for murder.Editorials
Library Journal
A conventional Japanese businessman who has been recently widowed remarries a much younger woman, a model by profession. This one atypical action sets off a comic chain of events that changes his life: his maid quits, his new wife's grandmother moves in (she's just out of prison for murder), and, as his wife's behavior grows increasingly incomprehensible, his once orderly existence unravels. While the plotting of this novel is glacially slow, readers who enjoy the ruminations of an ironical first-person narrator or who want satiric insight into contemporary Japanese society will undoubtedly enjoy. Carl Vogel, San Francisco P . L .Book Details
Published
May 1, 1986
Publisher
Kodansha America, Inc
Pages
430
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780870117633