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Overview
Eight stories by one of Japan's most important women authors concern the strugglesof women in a repressive society. An unwed mother introduces her children to their father . . . A woman confronts the "other woman". . . A young single mother resents her children . . . These stories touch on universal themes of passion and jealousy, motherhood's joys and sorrows, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A story collection from one of Japan's most acclaimed writers. (May)Library Journal
Tsushima has been honored in her ) native Japan for her fiction. One novel ( Child of Fortune ) has been translated, but this is her first collection of short stories to appear in English. These eight stories all deal with women facing some kind of social problem or predicament or attempting to define their own identity. The situations reflect Japanese social mores, sometimes at odds with ours, but will be meaningful to readers from any culture where women are attaining new freedoms. The translation occasionally vacillates between American and British English, but the overall rendering is smooth and appropriately colloquial. Highly recommended both as literature and as social comment. Donald J. Pearce, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, Lib. Reviewers with sound critical judgment 8 and an interest in literary fiction, experimen tal writing, and/or fiction in translation are invited to send two sample reviews to Bar bara Hoffert, The Book Review.Book Details
Published
May 1, 1997
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780811213561