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Child of Fortune (Choji)
Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (translation)First published as Choji by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1978
'A terrific novel' – Angela Carter
'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting & achingly sad' – Japan Times
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Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her.
Combining the beauty & unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears & desires.
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Perhaps no other female Japanese writer has traversed the personal & the political so successfully in her work as Yuko Tsushima (1947-2016).
The prolific author burst onto the literary scene in 1967 with her first short story, "A Birth," while still a university student. Initially, Tsushima garnered media attention as the daughter of famed writer Osamu Dazai (1909-48), but she quickly forged her own independent literary identity & eventually won most of Japan's top literary accolades, including the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize for Literature & the Tanizaki Prize.
Early on, Tsushima broke the boundaries of the traditional Japanese I-novel genre, giving voice to a voiceless minority by authentically depicting the struggles of single mothers in society as a single mother herself. Tsushima was lauded both at home & in the West as a feminist writer for these early works.
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Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of 24. She died in 2016.
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