Child of darkness : Yōko and other stories
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Child of darkness : Yōko and other stories
（Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies, no. 18）
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997
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- : pbk
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Contents of Works
- Yōko
- The Plain of sorrows
- The Doll
Description and Table of Contents
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: hc ISBN 9780939512782
Description
Yoko (winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 1971) is the story of a sensitive young man's relationship with the title character, a beautiful young woman who is suffering from an apparently hereditary mental illness. Through Yoko's vivid but distorted perceptions of the world, Furui highlights the process by which reality and identity are created. Above all, however, Yoko is a touching, if somewhat unusual, tale of a young couple's deepening love.The other two short stories in this collection, "The Plain of Sorrows" and "The Doll", deal with the subject of coming to terms with aging and death, thus shifting the focus from the crises of young adulthood to those of middle age.
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: pbk ISBN 9780939512799
Description
Yoko (winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 1971) is the story of a sensitive young man's relationship with the title character, a beautiful young woman who is suffering from an apparently hereditary mental illness. Through Yoko's vivid but distorted perceptions of the world, Furui highlights the process by which reality and identity are created. Above all, however, Yoko is a touching, if somewhat unusual, tale of a young couple's deepening love.
The other two short stories in this collection, ""The Plain of Sorrows"" and ""The Doll,"" deal with the subject of coming to terms with aging and death, thus shifting the focus from the crises of young adulthood to those of middle age.
Table of Contents
Yaoko -- Aihara (Plain of sorrows) -- Ningyao (Doll).
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