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The Waiting Years Fumiko Enchi

The Waiting Years By Fumiko Enchi

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

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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.

The Waiting Years Summary

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

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 and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress.

The Waiting Years was awarded Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize.

The Waiting Years Reviews

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 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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GOR011312341
9780099589457
0099589451
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2019-11-07
192
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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