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The doctor's wife / Sawako Ariyoshi ; translated by Wakako Hironaka and Ann Siller Kostant.
Van Pelt Library PL845.R5 D713 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ariyoshi, Sawako, 1931-1984.
- Standardized Title:
- Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Hanaoka, Kae, 1760-1829--Fiction.
- Hanaoka, Kae.
- Hanaoka, Kae, 1760-1829.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 174 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1981.
- Summary:
- 'A powerful portrait of two strongwilled women in a society almost totally dominated by men.' -Oriental Economist This is a novel based on the life of the first doctor in the world to perform surgery for breast cancer under a general anesthetic.
- Notes:
- Translation of Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma.
- ISBN:
- 0870114654
- 4770009534
- OCLC:
- 8162707
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