- Fiction, Japan, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ōgai Mōri
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780804810708
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“THIS STORY happened long ago, but by chance I remember that it occurred in 1880, the thirteenth year of Emperor Meiji's reign.”
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