Inheritance from mother : a novel / Minae Mizumura ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mizumura, Minae, author.

Contributor:

Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.

Standardized Title:

Haha no isan. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Women college teachers--Fiction.

Women college teachers.

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Marriage--Fiction.

Marriage.

Self-realization--Fiction.

Self-realization.

Japan--Fiction.

Japan.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Cultural Heritage.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Literary.

Women college teachers--Fiction.

FICTION / Cultural Heritage.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

446 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, where he ardently wooed her, is a professor at a different private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing eighty-something mother, a demanding, self-absorbed woman who is nothing like the idealized image of the patient, self-sacrificing Japanese matriarch. Mitsuki finds herself guiltily dreaming of the day when her mother will finally pass on. Though doing everything she can to ensure her mother's happiness, she grows weary of the responsibility of being a doting daughter and worries she is sacrificing her chance to find fulfillment in her middle age. Inheritance from Mother not only offers insight into a complex and paradoxical culture, but is also a profound work about mothers and daughters, marriage, old age, and the resilient spirit of women."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Previously published in Japanese as Haha no isan : shinbun shōsetsu. Tōkyō : Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2012.

Other Format:

Online version: Mizumura, Minae. Inheritance from mother.

ISBN:

9781590517826

1590517822

OCLC:

956623638

Publisher Number:

99971793762