Heaven's Wind (Amatsukaze): A dual language anthology of contemporary Japanese writing (English and Japanese Edition)

Kaori Ekuni

Aoko Matsuda

Mitsuyo Kakuta

Kuniko Mukoda

Natsuko Kuroda

Japan Society

Now, what are you doing? (2003) ISBN: 4022578238 [Japanese Import]

Asahi Shimbun

Winner of the 2nd Chuokoron literary prize(2007).The first full length suspense novel by this prize winning author. A mistress kidnapped the newborn daughter of her lover, and raised it as her own with much love and joy. The book searches for the meaning of family structure through the minds of the two women - the birth mother and the mistress.

LA CIGALE DU HUITIÈME JOUR (EN JAPONAIS)

CHUKO

Tsuki to kaminari.

Chuokoronshinsha

銀の夜

This compelling novel, widely acclaimed for its perceptive portrayal of the everyday lives and struggles of Japanese women, struck a deep chord with readers throughout Japan. In 2005 it won the prestigious Naoki Prize, awarded semiannually for the best work of popular fiction by an established writer. Sayoko, a thirty-five-year-old homemaker with a three-year-old child, begins working for Aoi, a free-spirited, single career woman her own age who runs a travel agency-housekeeping business. Timid and unable to connect with other mothers in her neighborhood, Sayoko finds herself drawn to Aoi's independent lifestyle and easygoing personality. The two hit it off from the start, beginning a friendship that is for Sayoko also a reaffirmation of what living is about. Aoi, meanwhile, has not always been the self-confident person she appears to be. Severe classroom bullying in junior high had forced her to change schools, uprooting her and her family to the countryside; and at her new school, she was so afraid of again becoming the object of her classmates' cruelties that she spent most of her time steering clear of those around her. The present-day friendship between Sayoko and Aoi on the one hand, and Aoi's painful high school past on the other, form a gripping two-tier narrative that converges in the final chapter. The book touches on a broad range of issues of concern to women today, from marriage and childrearing to being single and working for oneself. It is a universal story about both the fear and the joy of opening up to others.

Woman on the Other Shore: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kodansha USA

Agustosböceginin Sekizinci Günü

Doğan Kitap

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