This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The Mistress
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regime. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender’s mistress. She is surrounded by skillfully-drawn characters–her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is both the object of her desire and the symbol of her rescue–as well as a colorful procession of Meiji era figures–geisha, students, entertainers, unscrupulous matchmakers, shopkeepers, and greedy landladies. Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the titles, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.Author: Ogai Mori
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 07/10/2009
Series: Tuttle Classics
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9784805308844
Language: English
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