The Waiting Years
$24.23
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2019
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.
In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099589457 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099589451 |
| Author: | Fumiko Enchi |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching
Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching * The Daily News Journal *
A prize-winning novel by one of Japan’s most notable women authors * Library Journal *
A subtle dissection of the attitudes of Japanese women * Pacific Citizen *
The author is a woman of great intelligence, profound psychological insight, and extraordinary sensitivity * Monumenta Nipponica *
Absorbing, sensitive, and utterly heartrending * Charles Beardsley *
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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