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This compelling novel, widely acclaimed for its perceptive portrayal of the everyday lives and struggles of Japanese women, struck a deep chord with readers throughout Japan. In 2005 it won the prestigious Naoki Prize, awarded semiannually for the best work of popular fiction by an established writer. Sayoko, a thirty-five-year-old homemaker with a three-year-old child, begins working for Aoi, a free-spirited, single career woman her own age who runs a travel agency-housekeeping business. Timid and unable to connect with other mothers in her neighborhood, Sayoko finds herself drawn to Aoi's independent lifestyle and easygoing personality. The two hit it off from the start, beginning a friendship that is for Sayoko also a reaffirmation of what living is about. Aoi, meanwhile, has not always been the self-confident person she appears to be. Severe classroom bullying in junior high had forced her to change schools, uprooting her and her family to the countryside; and at her new school, she was so afraid of again becoming the object of her classmates' cruelties that she spent most of her time steering clear of those around her. The present-day friendship between Sayoko and Aoi on the o

Who reads Women On the Other Shore?

Author

Kakuta, Mitsuyo

Publisher

Kodansha International Co., Ltd.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9782007001389

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.56 / 5 (216 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14