A faithful wife of a government official, externally calm but torn apart inside, must choose an official mistress for her husband, in late 19th century Japan. From a well-known Japanese female writer who won the big Japanese literary prizes in the 1940s, but who has never been published in the UK before
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Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her.