Woman Running in the Mountains - New York Review Books Classics

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief 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 that she also hopes will free her. Takiko's first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women-in the hospital, in her son's nursery-but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.

ISBN:	9781681375977
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Imprint:	New York Review Books
Published date:	22 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	895.635
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	44377
Number of pages:	xii, 275
Weight:	288g
Height:	127mm
Width:	202mm
Spine width:	21mm

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