おらおらでひとりいぐも

At twenty-four, three days before her wedding, Momoko fled her home village, as if propelled by the trumpets heralding the Tokyo Olympics, and stepped off at Ueno station with nothing. Then came a live-in job, meeting Shuzo, marriage, two children raised in a rush of laughter and effort, and her husband's sudden death. Now, at seventy-four, estranged from her son and daughter, she listens to the mice and drinks her tea, while inner voices in the dialect she left behind talk over one another, asking whether she has really lived. Out of grief she finds a startling freedom and a lively kind of solitude.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

164 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2017 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9784309026374 (original)

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