Book Subject Tag: Women, Japan, Fiction
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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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The shooting gallery, and other stories
Short stories.
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The River Ki
Powerful enough to sweep away people on its banks and placid enough to carry along with its flow a sumptuous wedding procession, the River Ki dominates the lives of the people who live in its fertile valley and imparts a vital strength to the three women–mother, daughter, and granddaughter–around whom this novel is built. It…
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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