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The Story Of A Single Woman by Chiyo Uno is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 TimesShe 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 younger years with piercing clarity. Growing up in a tiny Japanese mountain village at the start of the 20th century, her life was shadowed by the demands and expectations of her troubled, alcoholic father. When her family arrange for her to marry a cousin when she is still a young teenager, Kazue stays with the boy for only 10 days before returning home alone.This is the beginning of a life of striking independence, one which will see Kazue forced to leave her home at eighteen following a love affair and that will take her...

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Author

Chiyo Uno

Publisher

Steerforth Press

Published

2025

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction