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by Mori Ogai - in the 2014 translation of Meredith McKinney
Otama is a young woman whom poverty has forced to become Suezo's mistress in order to provide for her widowed father. When she finds out that Suezo is a married money lender however, she begins to resent him and quietly hopes for a hero to save her.
Enter Okada, a medical student at a nearby university who regularly passes by Otama's house. A lucky incident allows them to meet, but will Okada be able to free Otama for good?
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Finlay Lloyd is an Australian non profit publisher dedicated to encouraging imaginative and challenging writing, to subtly innovative design and to celebrating the pleasures of print on paper in an electronic age.
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Meredith McKinney is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese literature, whose translations include Sei Shônagon’s classic The Pillow Book, as well as Kokoro and Kusamakura by Natsume Sôseki.
A wonderful book of love, duty, and the little things that change everything. It was fun to read this great modern translation!
Iris Reinbacher
An essay about a Japanese garden in Kyoto that opened up for the author only for a short moment...
Text first published in "Encounters with Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 3"
runtime: 07:49 text copyright: 2019 audio copyright: 2020
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