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Masks (VINTAGE CLASSICS)
Fumiko Enchi
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Description for Masks (VINTAGE CLASSICS)
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. What troubles Ibuki is the curious bond that has grown between Yasuko and her mother-in-law, Mieko, a handsome, cultivated yet jealous woman in her fifties, who is manipulating the relationship between Yasuko and the two men who love her.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589440
SKU
V9780099589440
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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.
Reviews for Masks (VINTAGE CLASSICS)
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
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