The Waiting Years Hugo Mars was the next step

Mars was the next step

Simone would write a book that challenged the role of women in society

satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era

ISBN: 9786299822103

The Waiting Years Hugo Mars was the next stepAuthor: Enchi Fumiko ISBN: 9780099589457 Format: Paperback Publisher: Vintage In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search