Fumiko Hayashi (林 芙美子), December 31, 1903 or 1904 (Japanese sources disagree on the birth year) - June 28, 1951) was a Japanese novelist and poet. When Hayashi was seven, her mother ran away with a manager of her common-law husband's store, and afterwards the three worked in Kyūshū as itinerant merchants. After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo with a lover and lived with several men until settling into marriage with the painter Rokubin Tezuka in 1926. Many of...
Floating clouds
Floating clouds
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Yukiko returns to Japan after World War II, finding a country vastly changed and her own life adrift. She navigates the harsh realities of post-war Tokyo, struggling with poverty, societal expectations, and a complicated relationship with a former lover. This story explores the disillusionment and resilience of individuals in a nation rebuilding itself.
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Floating CloudsPaperback, Apr
328 pages
Columbia University PressISBN: 97802311362974 editions available
