Chiyo Uno

A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer
“Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail”  — Financial Times
She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn’t this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden?
As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous...