Cathy Layne

Autore di No geisha: otto modi di essere donna nel Giappone di oggi: racconti

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Opere di Cathy Layne

No geisha: otto modi di essere donna nel Giappone di oggi: racconti (2008) — A cura di — 71 copie

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Inside and Other Short Fiction--Japanese Women by… di Amy Yamada

Glimpses into the lives of 8 very different Japanese women, mostly saturated with claustrophobic, bootless yearning isolation, whether it is the whore cheated by a lover or the career woman who can't get respect from younger male colleagues and where the men aren't complete ciphers they can only be entirely trusted to be selfish.

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quondame | 1 altra recensione | Mar 22, 2021 |

Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by… di Amy Yamada

This is an anthology by contemporary Japanese women writers. As noted in the introduction, these authors are all popular, award-winning writers in Japan but have been virtually unknown because their work has been previously unpublished in English. The collection seems to be arranged roughly according to age-progression ( The first two stories have teen protagonists, the last a woman approaching fifty) and is centered around "the exploration of female identity in a rapidly changing society." As with any anthology, I liked some of these bold stories more than others - I think the story I found most moving is a sexually explicit story called "Piss" by Yuzuki Muroi. I also liked "The Unfertilized Egg" by Junko Hasegawa.… (altro)