Woman running in the mountains / Yūko Tsushima ; translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt ; introduction by Lauren Groff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsushima, Yūko, author.

Contributor:

Harcourt, Geraldine, translator.

Groff, Lauren, writer of introduction.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Yama o hashiru onna. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Single mothers--Fiction.

Single mothers.

History.

Japan.

Dysfunctional families--Fiction.

Dysfunctional families.

Japan--History--1945-1989--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

History.

Novels.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a casual affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge but also an instrument for her long-wished-for independence. Takiko's first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn, learning how to accommodate him. At first Takiko seeks refuge in the company of other women, in the maternity hospital, in her son's nursery, but as he grows, her life becomes less circumscribed, expanding outward into previously unknown neighborhoods in her city and then beyond, into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and feeling for a wilder freedom. First published in Japan in 1980, Woman Running in the Mountains is as urgent and necessary an account today of the experience of the female body and of a woman's right to self-determination."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: WOMAN RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS

Midsummer

The Wood

Cries

The Road

Winter

Young Leaves

The Mountain.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Tsushima, Yūko. Woman running in the mountains

ISBN:

9781681375977

1681375974

OCLC:

1245344031