Masks
$15.99
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Fumiko Enchi, a leading female voice in Japanese literature, and her unforgettable exploration of identity and tradition.
Masks is Enchi’s elegant, seductive story of sexual deception, revenge, and the haunting legacy of the past. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko, who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence. His friend, Mikame, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. What troubles Ibuki is the curious bond that has grown between Yasuko and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529983784 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529983789 |
| Author: | Fumiko Enchi |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
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Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi, born Fumi Ueda, was a preeminent Japanese woman writer of the Showa period. Her first play, A Turbulent Night in Late Spring, achieved success at the Tsukiji Little Theatre. Her 1952 short story, Days of Hunger, garnered critical acclaim and won the Women Writers Prize.
In 1957, Enchi published The Waiting Years, a novel that took eight years to complete and earned her Japan’s highest literary award, the Noma Prize. She was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit in 1979 and received the Order of Culture from the Japanese government in 1985. Shortly before her death in 1986, she was elected to the Japan Art Academy.
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