The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, translated by Mildred Tahara [in AsianWeek]
06 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Through three generations of strong, independent women, Ariyoshi captures and conveys the tumultuous period of Japan from the stratified, socially constrictive end of the 19th century to the modern postwar era of the 20th.
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