Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakucho. Writer,
translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this
list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along the
way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress, lover, role
model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn, she has
reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving reflection. Basho
(Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby, enjoins readers
to accompany the author as she travels again over the familiar
terrain of her life story, journeying through the places where she
once lived, loved, suffered, and learned." - from the Foreword by
Rebecca L. Copeland In this scintillating work of autobiographical
fiction, Setouchi Jakucho recalls with almost photographic clarity
scenes from her past: growing up in the Tokushima countryside in
the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman, and in Tokyo as a young
student experiencing the heady freedom of college life; escaping to
Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged marriage and an
ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo, with its lively
community of artists and writers, to establish herself as a
novelist. Throughout, Jakucho is propelled by a burning desire to
write and make a living as one. Her memories, remarkably sharp and
clear, also provide a fascinating picture of everyday life in Japan
in the years surrounding World War II.
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