The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, translated by Mildred Tahara [in AsianWeek]
Through three generations of strong, independent women, Ariyoshi captures and conveys the tumultuous period of Japan from the stratified, socially constrictive end of the 19th century to the modern postwar era of the 20th.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, January 6, 2005
Readers: Adult
Published: 2004 (paperback reprint; United States)
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