{"product_id":"9781681375977-woman-running-in-the-mountains","title":"Harcourt Geraldine - Woman Running In The Mountains - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Set in 1970s Japan this tender and poetic novel about a young single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn in the heat of midsummer a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy the result of a brief affair with a married man is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko however it is a cause for reverie. Her baby she imagines will be hers and hers alone a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko's first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women in the hospital in her son's nursery but as the baby grows her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo then ventures beyond the city into the countryside toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Woman Running In The Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Harcourt Geraldine\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781681375977\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 312 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Harcourt Geraldine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622931407153,"sku":"IN-G-9781681375977","price":15.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781681375977_fce5a4eb-5f46-4c3a-8778-f9b716b57d3b.jpg?v=1724709040","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781681375977-woman-running-in-the-mountains","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}