Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their efforts to find a suitable husband for the third sister take place in the years and months just before the great wave of WW2 broke over Japan.
The Makioka Sisters
£12.99
Edition:Hardback978185715155820/05/1993From a Bookshelf nearby
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