A Wife in Musashino: Volume 51

by Shōhei Ōoka

Book Overview

A Wife in Musashino, published in 1950, was a major critical and commercial success and was quickly adapted to the screen by the director Mizoguchi Kenji in 1951. Composed simultaneously with portions of Ōoka's great war novel Fires on the Plain, A Wife in Musashino recounts the story of the ill-fated love between a young demobilized soldier, Tsutomu, and his married cousin, Michiko. The impact on Ōoka of French writers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929280289
• ISBN13: 9781929280285
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.