The Wild Geese: The modern classic that was the source for the highly acclaimed film, 'The Mistriss'
Language: English
Published by Tuttle Publishing, 2009
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Otama is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded by her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is the object of her desire. Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the title, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight.
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- Title
- The Wild Geese: The modern classic that was the source for the highly acclaimed film, 'The Mistriss'
- Author
- Ogai Mori
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 4805308842
- ISBN 13
- 9784805308844
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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.
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