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葎の母 (河出文庫 103C)

Tamura Toshiko Award

葎の母 (河出文庫 103C)

Yuko Tsushima

Mother of Mugura is an important early work by Yuko Tsushima, quietly probing mother and child, family memory, and the weight of women's lives. With autobiographical shadows, it expands private emotion into a broader family fiction.

mother and childfamilyfemale lonelinessmemory

Work Information

An early major work that depicts family memory and female loneliness through the mother-child relationship.

Published in Kawade Bunko, this Yuko Tsushima novel won the Tamura Toshiko Award. In the context of a prize honoring women's writing, it matters as a work that looks at pain within the family without idealizing motherhood.

Review Summaries

  • Readers find dense family emotion and loneliness submerged within its quiet narration. It is regarded as important for understanding the early phase of Tsushima's fiction.

Book Information

Publisher
河出書房新社
Published
1982-12-01
Pages
217 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784309400433
ISBN-10
4309400434
Price
6215 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学

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