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The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi (, trans. from the Japanese by John Bester, pages) Fumiko Enchi ( to Tokyo) was the daughter of a famous scholar of classical Japanese literature. She acknowledged as one of her strongest literary influence the work of Junichiro Tanizaki which I did see. Fumiko Enchi's "The Waiting Years" is reminiscent of a lot of older Japanese fiction in that it is a quiet novel, where the action is very much within the social and cultural constraints of the time. If you are looking for an emotional rollercoaster or a dynamic page-turner full of social commentary then "The Waiting Years" is not for you. The Waiting Years is a novel by Fumiko Enchi, set within the milieu of an upper class Japanese family in the last years of the 19th century. It was first published. Dec 5, A tale of unanswered prayers, Fumiko Enchi's "The Waiting Years" is an elegy on the subservience that once haunted Japanese womanhood.
Fumiko Enchi: 女坂 (The Waiting Years) The Shirakawa family live in Fukushima (yes, that Fukushima), where Yukitomo Shirakawa is the Chief Secretary to the governor. He is married to Tomo and they have two children: Michimasa, who lives with relatives in the country, and Etsuko, who is nine years old at the start of the novel. The Waiting Years is a work of historical fiction from the Japanese literary canon written by acclaimed Japanese author Fumiko Enchi. The book takes place in the early Meiji era of Japan, from to It follows Tomo and her husband, a mid-level government official and the ancestor of samurai, as their home fills with paid concubines, posing as maids, over the forty years of their marriage. The Waiting Years was awarded Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize. Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her.
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