Description
Author Ogai Mori
PublisherCharles E. Tuttle Company
Binding paperback
Condition age tanning and some underlining: Rare Early Edition
Summary
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.
The Wild Geese is a poignant novella set in late 19th-century Japan, focusing on the life of Otama, a young woman caught in a web of societal expectations and personal desires. The story explores themes of love, loneliness, and the constraints imposed by traditional Japanese society. Otama becomes the mistress of a moneylender named Suezo to support her aging father, but her life is complicated when she falls in love with a medical student named Okada. The novella delves into the internal struggles of the characters, especially Otama, as she grapples with her choices and the societal limitations placed on her as a woman. The title metaphorically refers to the wild geese, symbolizing freedom and the unattainable aspirations of the characters, particularly Otama's desire for independence and true love.