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The Waiting Years

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan`s greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband’™s new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress. `The Waiting Years` was awarded Japan’™s most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize.

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