The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue
The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue. Translated by Sadamichi Yokoo and Sanford Goldstein.1989 Peter Owen reissue, 72 pages. Inoue was a Japanese author best known for his master of historical fiction. According to the New York Times: "Inoue’s 1949 novella “The Hunting Gun” remains perhaps his best-known work outside Japan. Here three women speak in three letters addressed to the same man, the coolly self-assured Misugi — Shoko, his bewildered young niece; Midori, his defiant wife; and Saiko, his longtime lover, on the brink of suicide. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, their perspectives are layered one atop another like the colors in a woodblock print."
Condition: Jacket VG-, tiny tear front cover, book VG-, Strand price sticker on front pastedown, pencil mark on half title page
"After reading the diary, I knew that mother had been burdened with the thought of death during the last thirteen years."
The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue. Translated by Sadamichi Yokoo and Sanford Goldstein.1989 Peter Owen reissue, 72 pages. Inoue was a Japanese author best known for his master of historical fiction. According to the New York Times: "Inoue’s 1949 novella “The Hunting Gun” remains perhaps his best-known work outside Japan. Here three women speak in three letters addressed to the same man, the coolly self-assured Misugi — Shoko, his bewildered young niece; Midori, his defiant wife; and Saiko, his longtime lover, on the brink of suicide. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, their perspectives are layered one atop another like the colors in a woodblock print."
Condition: Jacket VG-, tiny tear front cover, book VG-, Strand price sticker on front pastedown, pencil mark on half title page
"After reading the diary, I knew that mother had been burdened with the thought of death during the last thirteen years."