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Tokyo. 1983. Kodansha. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0870115324. Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt Tokyo. 161 pages. hardcover. Jacket photo: Pack ice, by Tsuneo Nakamura. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-By conventional Japanese standards, Koko Mizuno is an abysmal failure as woman, wife, and mother-and she couldn't care less. She has succeeded in remaining true to herself in a stubborn struggle against powerful conformist pressures. Yet her resistance is largely passive. Self-absorbed, indecisive, she makes her own uncharted way through life, letting her husband, lovers, even her only daughter, gradually slip away. Signs that she is pregnant after a casual affair rouse her to make decisions. Then a deeply ironic turn of events thrusts her into the cold light of a reluctant self-knowledge. Through layer upon layer of dreams, memories, defenses, and delusions, she emerges finally to take a conscious step toward the independence she cannot yet define, certain only that she herself has changed. In CHILD OF FORTUNE, Yuko Tsushima has brought to life a woman whose psychological complexity reflects the meeting of Japanese fiction and women's changing consciousness. The depths of inner conflict are illuminated here by radiant imagery, wry humor, and a sharp clarity of vision. While drawing on the ‘I-novel' tradition that has dominated modem Japanese literature, the author integrates the autobiographical elements into a fully realized fictional work of penetrating social insight. The novel received the 1978 Women's Literature Prize, one of many awards that have spotlighted Yuko Tsushima as a writer of exceptional gifts. inventory #7048.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First English language edition, 1983. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 161 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0870115324. A novel. Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt. First edition thus. About fine in like dust jacket.