The Old Woman, the Wife and the Archer by Donald Keene (.ePUB)
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The Old Woman, the Wife and the Archer: Three Modern Japanese Short Novels by Shichiro Fukasawa, Chiyo Uno, Jun Ishikawa, Donald Keene (translator)
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Overview: “To read these stories in the West is to discover something of the hidden river of the past that flows beneath modern Japan,” thus Donald Keene, who selected and translated these three short novels, describes the meaning they can have for us. In their own country each of them has separately enjoyed a huge success, testifying to the persistence and the human relevance of the traditions on which they are based.
All three authors are contemporary, but their themes stem from the days before the Westernization of Japan, when men with swords roamed the city streets and poverty made infanticide a normal practice in the countryside. To the Western reader unacquainted with the literature of Japan, or to one who knows only the novels of contemporary life or romanticized historical fiction, these stories will come as a revelation.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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