ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima

Date
Monday 10 July 2023
Time
7.00pm (BST)
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Online event
Free for Japan Society Members

Book available from Blackwell's, Amazon and Bookshop.org 
Japanese version available here

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Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. First published in Japan in 1980, Woman Running in the Mountains is as urgent and necessary account today of the experience of the female body and of a woman's right to self-determination.

Read the review here.

Yuko Tsushima (1947-2016) is considered one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation. She is best known for her novel Mountain of Fire and her short-story collection The Shooting Gallery. Much of her work is influenced by the oral epics and tales of pre-modern Japan, as well as her own experience as a single mother. Her father was the famous Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, who committed suicide when Tsushima was only a year old. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

If you have any questions, please call the Japan Society office on 020 3075 1996 or email events@japansociety.org.uk.

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