Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo
Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo. Translated by Phyllis Birnbaum. 1990 Peter Owen, first UK edition (c/r 1935),157 pages. Chiyo was a Japanese author, magazine founder, and kimono designer who shocked Japanese society with her public love affairs and short bobbed haircut. Later in life she was recognized as a legend and her novels recognized as masterpieces. Confessions was her debut novel and depicts her first major love affair and Japan in the roaring twenties. This edition was the first translated into English.
Condition: Jacket in good condition, some browning, tear on back cover, book good+ owner initials on first page
"I became so furious I wanted to spit."
Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo. Translated by Phyllis Birnbaum. 1990 Peter Owen, first UK edition (c/r 1935),157 pages. Chiyo was a Japanese author, magazine founder, and kimono designer who shocked Japanese society with her public love affairs and short bobbed haircut. Later in life she was recognized as a legend and her novels recognized as masterpieces. Confessions was her debut novel and depicts her first major love affair and Japan in the roaring twenties. This edition was the first translated into English.
Condition: Jacket in good condition, some browning, tear on back cover, book good+ owner initials on first page
"I became so furious I wanted to spit."