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Masks
Fumiko Enchi
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Description for Masks
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 Publishing United Kingdom
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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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-30
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Masks
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more