Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
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, Mikame, 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.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 1983.
ISBN
0394722183 / 9780394722184
Pages
141
Language
Original language
Japanese
Original publication date
1958 (original Japanese)
1983 (English: Carpenter)