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Masks

By Fumiko Enchi

By Fumiko Enchi

By Fumiko Enchi

By Fumiko Enchi

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.95

Sep 12, 1983 | ISBN 9780394722184

Ebook $9.99

Jun 17, 2015 | ISBN 9781101970638

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    About Masks

    Following the death of her son, Mieko Toganō takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko. Devastated by her loss, she skillfully manipulates the relationships between Yasuko and the two men who are in love with her, encouraging a dalliance that will have terrible consequences. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, is Mieko’s mentally-handicapped daughter, who has her own role to play in her mother’s bizarre schemes. In Masks, Enchi has crafted a stunning and understated novel of seduction and infidelity.

    About Masks

    Following the death of her son, Mieko Toganō takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko. Devastated by her loss, she skillfully manipulates the relationships between Yasuko and the two men who are in love with her, encouraging a dalliance that will have terrible consequences. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, is Mieko’s mentally-handicapped daughter, who has her own role to play in her mother’s bizarre schemes. In Masks, Enchi has crafted a stunning and understated novel of seduction and infidelity.

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    About Fumiko Enchi

    Fumiko Enchi was born in Tokyo in 1905, the daughter of the great Meiji scholar Ueda Mannen. She is the author of many novels and stories, and has produced a ten-volume translation of The Take of Genji into modern Japanese. Masks was… More about Fumiko Enchi

    About Fumiko Enchi

    Fumiko Enchi was born in Tokyo in 1905, the daughter of the great Meiji scholar Ueda Mannen. She is the author of many novels and stories, and has produced a ten-volume translation of The Take of Genji into modern Japanese. Masks was… More about Fumiko Enchi

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense Romance

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 1983 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394722184

    Category: Suspense Romance

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 17, 2015 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9781101970638
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    Praise

     “A subtle examination of universal female behavior.” —People

    “[Enchi’s] allusions to the masks of Nō plays and to the classic The Tale of Genji, the brilliant way she layers and interweaves the ancient, the more recent past and the present are haunting and rich. A fictional enchantment.” —Publishers Weekly

    “Enchi’s writing has some of the same amniotic fluidity as Tolstoy’s, an almost bodily, floating immersion into the effortless habitat of the story.” —The American Reader

    “Clear and powerful. . . . Almost imperceptively woven.” —Kirkus

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