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Amrita

Translated by Russell F. Wasden

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A Japanese woman’s struggle to regain her memory. She is Saku-chan, a barmaid who suffered a head injury in a fall. She meets her dead sister’s lover and the two have an affair which helps her recover. By the author of Lizard.

japanese title: Amurita
notes: Japanese title: Amurita.
subjects: Families
Grief
Loss, Psychology
Psychological fiction, Japanese
Spirits
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802115904
OCLC number: 36528204
publisher: Grove Press, 1997; Washington Square Press, 1998
publication place: New York; New York
japanese publication date: 1994
english publication date: 1997
document type: Book
description: 366 p. ; 22 cm.