Summary
Fumiko Enchi was a well-known female Japanese writer whose work is often compared to Yukio Mishima. She won major Japanese literary prizes in the 1940s (the Noma & Tanizaki) and has never been published in the UK.
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan’s greatest modern female writers.
Ibuki loves widow Yasuko, who is young, charming, and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikame, desires her too, but that is not the difficulty. What t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099589440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099589443 |
| Author: | Fumiko Enchi |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
Clear and powerful
Clear and powerful * Kirkus *
An esoteric masterpiece * Yukio Mishima *
A subtle examination of universal female behavior * People *
[Enchi’s] allusions to the masks of No plays and to the classic The Tale of Genji, the brilliant way she layers and interweaves the ancient, the more recent past and the present are haunting and rich. A fictional enchantment * Publishers Weekly *
Enchi’s writing has some of the same amniotic fluidity as Tolstoy’s, an almost bodily, floating immersion into the effortless habitat of the story * The American Reader *
About The Author
Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi was the pen-name of Fumi Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Showa period of Japan. Her first play, A Turbulent Night in Late Spring, performed at the Tsukiji Little Theatre, was a success and a short story published in 1952, Days of Hunger, was acclaimed by the critics and won the coveted Women Writers Prize. On the publication in 1957 of The Waiting Years - a novel she took eight years to write - she won Japan’s highest literary award, the Noma Prize. Enchi was made a Person of Cultural Merit in 1979, and was awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese government in 1985. She was elected to the Japan Art Academy shortly before her death in 1986.
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