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The Story of a Single Woman
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A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer
“Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail” — Financial Times
She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn’t this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden?
As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous younger years with piercing clarity. Growing up in a tiny Japanese mountain village at the start of...
“Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail” — Financial Times
She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn’t this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden?
As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous younger years with piercing clarity. Growing up in a tiny Japanese mountain village at the start of...