The Waiting Years (Japan's Women Writers) - Softcover

9780870114243: The Waiting Years (Japan's Women Writers)
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An unnerving portrait of women caught in a web of shifting relationships within an upper-class family in the years following the Meiji Restoration.

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"Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching" (The Daily News Journal)

"A prize-winning novel by one of Japan's most notable women authors" (Library Journal)

"A subtle dissection of the attitudes of Japanese women" (Pacific Citizen)

"The author is a woman of great intelligence, profound psychological insight, and extraordinary sensitivity" (Monumenta Nipponica)

"Absorbing, sensitive, and utterly heartrending" (Charles Beardsley)
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Fumiko Enchi was a well known female Japanese writer, whose work is often compared to Yukio Mishima. She won the big Japanese Literary prizes in the 1940s (the Noma & Tanizaki) and has never been published in the UK.

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  • PublisherKodansha America, Inc
  • Publication date1980
  • ISBN 10 0870114247
  • ISBN 13 9780870114243
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages208
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