Child of Fortune
$22.03
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
New in Penguin Japanese Classics - an innovative feminist novel about motherhood and girlhood
Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics - a collection of some of Japan’s most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground ‘ark’ full of shadows and eccentrics, with stops at mountains of skulls, lonely apartments and boarding school dormitories, this series is perf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241675274 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241675278 |
| Author: | Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Japanese Classics |
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Critics Review
A classic novel as relevant today as when it was published nearly 40 years ago … at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad, Geraldine Harcourt’s elegant translation captures Tsushima’s poignant wisdom on the female struggle with societal expectations. * Japan Times *depicts the multiple layers of a woman’s consciousness, her fears and longings, her willingness to endure suffering yet resistance to pressures to conform. * The Mountain is Moving *
About The Author
Yuko Tsushima
Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.
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