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Woman Running in the Mountains
Yūko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (translation), Lauren Groff (introduction)Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow & shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers & hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures & pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.
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Perhaps no other female Japanese writer has traversed the personal & the political so successfully in her work as Yuko Tsushima (1947-2016).
The prolific author burst onto the literary scene in 1967 with her first short story, "A Birth," while still a university student. Initially, Tsushima garnered media attention as the daughter of famed writer Osamu Dazai (1909-48), but she quickly forged her own independent literary identity & eventually won most of Japan's top literary accolades, including the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize for Literature & the Tanizaki Prize.
Early on, Tsushima broke the boundaries of the traditional Japanese I-novel genre, giving voice to a voiceless minority by authentically depicting the struggles of single mothers in society as a single mother herself. Tsushima was lauded both at home & in the West as a feminist writer for these early works.
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