Author: Hayashi Fumiko
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Be a woman : Hayashi Fumiko and modern Japanese women’s literature
A close scrutiny of Hayashi Fumiko’s work – in particular the two pieces masterfully translated here, the immensely popular novel Horoki (Diary of a Vagabond) and Suisen (Narcissus).
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Wandering heart : the work and method of Hayashi Fumiko
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Floating clouds
Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman’s struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel’s characters, particularly its resilient heroine, Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break out of the morass of indecisiveness. Set in the years during and after World War…
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I saw a pale horse ; and, Selected poems from Diary of a vagabond