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Fumiko Enchi - Waiting Years, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Waiting Years

Av Fumiko Enchi

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Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband’s new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress. The Waiting Years was awarded Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-11-07
  • Mått: 132 x 191 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 160 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 192
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099589457
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Fumiko Enchi was the pen-name of Fumi Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Showa period of Japan. Her first play,A Turbulent Night in Late Spring, performed at the Tsukiji Little Theatre, was a success and a short story published in 1952, Days of Hunger, was acclaimed by the critics and won the coveted Women Writers Prize.On the publication in 1957 of The Waiting Years – a novel she took eight years to write – she won Japan’s highest literary award, the Noma Prize. Enchi was made a Person of Cultural Merit in 1979, and was awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese government in 1985. She was elected to the Japan Art Academy shortly before her death in 1986.

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Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching

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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Agnes

    En väldigt intressant bok. Otroligt fint översatt till engleska. Boken ger en ovanligt bra beskrivning hur det var i Japan och det inte så länge sedan heller. Jag har bott i Japan, på landsbygden och så det kändes som om jag kunde relatera till mycket. Husen, hur man handlar och tänker på ett för oss annorlunda sätt. Rekommenderas.

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