Book Review: Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo
Author: Uno Chiyo
Translated
by: Phyllis
Birnbaum
Publisher: Charles
Tuttle Tokyo, 1990
ISBN: 0-8048-1651-4
Pages: 157
Summary
“ Such places are probably no longer permitted to operate but back then there was a restaurant next to Shimbashi Station called the Yuyutei, there were several small rooms each with two chairs. Once the curtain was drawn in those rooms, even a person passing outside could’nt make out who was within. Men would go there with women and those couples would spend the time talking to each other in whispers” p33
A very
humourous story about an intimate romantic history apparently based on the life
of the artist Togo Seiji who is called Yuasa Joji in the novel. A kind of
chronicle of life in Tokyo in the 1920’s where weak men who were irresistible
to women entered relationships.
“ I tried to sound irritated but finally let the fury stay locked up in my heart” p42
Book Review: Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo
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