I purchased this book at Book Bank one day after I attended a BookCrossing meet-up in Alexandria, Virginia. I love to stop in that used book store on my way home! :)

I am reading this book for the November 2015 TIOLI challenge on LibraryThing to read a book whose author's name contains a mark other than plain English letters.

This is a mind-blowing novel and one I found mesmerizing. It's the story of the love relationship between Sonoko Kakiuchi, a married woman, and Mitsuko, a beautiful young woman in Sonoko's art class. As the plot develops, things get very complicated as the women try to hide their love from their families and from the handsome man who is in love with Mitsuko.

The beauty of this novel is in its psychological suspense as one does not know the motives of the characters in the story from moment to moment, other than those of Sonoko the narrator. There is love, dependence, humiliation, jealousy, anger, eroticism, secrecy, and more! All the chapters are short with breaks which you'll need to ponder what just happened.

I love novels like this! This was the first novel I read by this famous Japanese author who died in 1965. I'm looking for more of his works right away. I hope they're all as good as this novel was!

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Found at my local LFL recently

Left this with a friend who runs a Japanese style B&B outside of Star Tannery