| #1526015 in Books | 2004-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.63 x5.51l,.85 | File type: PDF | 192 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How Does An Independent Japanese Woman Think?|By Kunoichi|I was introduced to the writings of Ms. Takahashi from an anthology translated and edited by Yukiko Tanaka and Elizabeth Hanson: "This Kind of Woman. Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960 - 1976" that I purchased from . It was bought as a used book and some of the pages have now broken free of the binding, which|From Booklist|This collection of five linked stories, published in 1977 in Japan, where it won the annual Women's Literature Prize, presents a startling view of Japanese women as it explores the theme of lonelines
Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness." Her fiction typically features a woman for whom dreams and fantasies, crime, madness, sexual deviance, or occult pursuits serve as a temporary release from her society's definitions of female identity. The combination of surrealist...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Lonely Woman (Weatherhead Books on Asia) | Takako Takahashi. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
