| Description |
271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"Sayoko, a thirty-five-year-old homemaker with a three-year-old child, begins working for Aoi, a free-spirited, single career woman her own age who runs a travel agency-housekeeping business. Timid and unable to connect with other mothers in her neighborhood, Sayoko finds herself drawn to Aoi's independent lifestyle and easygoing personality. The two hit it off from the start, beginning a friendship that is for Sayoko also a reaffirmation of what living is about." "Aoi, meanwhile, has not always been the self-confident person she appears to be. Severe classroom bullying in junior high had forced her to change schools, uprooting her and her family to the countryside; and at her new school, she was so afraid of again becoming the object of her classmates' cruelties that she spent most of her time steering clear of those around her." |
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"The present-day friendship between Sayoko and Aoi on the one hand, and Aoi's painful high school past on the other, form a gripping two-tier narrative that converges in the final chapter. The book touches on a broad range of issues of concern to women today, from marriage and childrearing to being single and working for oneself."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Japanese in 2004 by Bungei Shunju, Tokyo, under the title: Taigan no kanojo"--T.p. verso |
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"This book has been selected by the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP), which is run by the Japanese Literature Publishing and Promotion Center (J-Lit Center) on behalf of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan." -- verso t.p |
| Subject |
Women -- Japan -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115660
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Lammers, Wayne P., 1951-
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Japanese Literature Publishing Project.
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| LC no. |
2007001381 |
| ISBN |
9784770030436 |
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4770030436 |
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