The author takes a serious theme and serves it up in a highly entertaining form. The central character is a bright, attractive, and strongwilled single woman working in the male-dominated environment of a major daily newspaper. One of her editorials angers a powerful supporter of the ruling political party; the government puts pressure on her through the newspaper; and the woman retaliates, using a network of friends and relatives - including an actress who was once closely involved with the prime minister, and a fellow ...
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The author takes a serious theme and serves it up in a highly entertaining form. The central character is a bright, attractive, and strongwilled single woman working in the male-dominated environment of a major daily newspaper. One of her editorials angers a powerful supporter of the ruling political party; the government puts pressure on her through the newspaper; and the woman retaliates, using a network of friends and relatives - including an actress who was once closely involved with the prime minister, and a fellow journalist with writer's block - to defend herself. The result is a slyly accurate picture of contemporary Japan that not only tells us about the role of women there in the 1990s, and about bribery and coercion at the highest levels of society, but treats us to the sort of brilliant gossip that makes a good novel great fun to read.
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Tokyo. 1995. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 4770018649. Translated from the Japanese by Dennis Keene. 322 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A big new novel by a writer Anthony Burgess hailed as 'a major comic novelist', A Mature Woman was first published in Japanese in 1993 and sold almost half a million copies before the year's end. A film version of it was also a box office hit. As usual, the author takes a serious theme and serves it up in a highly entertaining form. The central character is a bright, attractive, and strong-willed single woman working in the male-dominated environment of a major daily newspaper. One of her editorials angers a powerful supporter of the ruling political party; the government puts pressure on her through the newspaper; and the woman retaliates, using a network of friends and relatives-including an actress who was once closely involved with the prime minister, and a fellow journalist with writer's block-to defend herself. The result is a slyly accurate picture of contemporary Japan that not only tells us about the role of women there in the 1990s, and about bribery and coercion at the highest levels of society, but treats us to the sort of brilliant gossip that makes a good novel great fun to read. A first-rate piece of writing, penned with skill and style. -Kenzaburo Oe, 1994 Nobel Prize winner. inventory #43277.
