Woman Running in the Mountains
Tsushima, Yuko / Harcourt, Geraldine / Groff, Lauren
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 masterpiece by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a heavily pregnant young woman named Takiko departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief casual affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow to her parents. For Takiko, however...