Wild Geese

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Summary: An achingly beautiful story
Review: This is a tale of complex people who in their interaction find life to be much more complicated than they had expected or feared. Suezo, a moneylender, is tired of life with his nagging, highly imperfect wife, so he decides to take a mistress. Otama, the only child of a widower merchant, wishes that she could provide for her aging father, and when an obviously rich man asks her to be his mistress, a new hope beckons. When Otama learns the truth about Suezo, she feels betrayed, and hopes to find a hero to rescue her. When Otama meets Okada, a medical student, she feels that she might indeed have met her hero.

This is a bittersweet story, a story of hope and unfairness. The wild geese wish only for freedom, but sometimes others use them for purposes they cannot imagine. Published between 1911 and 1913, this book gives an excellent peek into the society of early modern Japan.

This book is an achingly beautiful story, and a fascinating historical document. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Great, exciting stuff!
Review: This is the book form of the old 70's movie, the "Wild Geese" with Richard Burton. If you thought the movie was exciting, boy have you got some suprises coming. Boy oh boy. Crisp action sequences followed by a number of realistic experiences of what it is like to ride the sweat saoked cushions of justice all across this great land of our through time and space. You better know this is one author I am going to read everything from. The Wild Geese: it isn't just for breakfast anymore.

Rating:
Summary: Great, exciting stuff!
Review: This is the book form of the old 70's movie, the "Wild Geese" with Richard Burton. If you thought the movie was exciting, boy have you got some suprises coming. Boy oh boy. Crisp action sequences followed by a number of realistic experiences of what it is like to ride the sweat saoked cushions of justice all across this great land of our through time and space. You better know this is one author I am going to read everything from. The Wild Geese: it isn't just for breakfast anymore.

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Summary: The coflict between love and surperstition!!
Review: This love story of a girl who became a lover of an old bill collecter and fall in love with a medical student is a sign of japanese mentality in the drastic changing situation between the periode "Edo" and periode "Meiji". As his first novel "Dancer"in wich he told his uncompleated love in Germany(at that time,having a foreign wife was a taboo), Mori tried to show the example of a conflict of natural feeling of love and the traditional superstition.Why the girl could not acheave her love? In Japan they said that a real love is a love forbidden, but it is sure that what Mori wanted to say in this book is not that beauty.

Rating:
Summary: The coflict between love and surperstition!!
Review: This love story of a girl who became a lover of an old bill collecter and fall in love with a medical student is a sign of japanese mentality in the drastic changing situation between the periode "Edo" and periode "Meiji". As his first novel "Dancer"in wich he told his uncompleated love in Germany(at that time,having a foreign wife was a taboo), Mori tried to show the example of a conflict of natural feeling of love and the traditional superstition.Why the girl could not acheave her love? In Japan they said that a real love is a love forbidden, but it is sure that what Mori wanted to say in this book is not that beauty.

Rating:
Summary: The coflict between love and surperstition!!
Review: This love story of a girl who became a lover of an old bill collecter and fall in love with a medical student is a sign of japanese mentality in the drastic changing situation between the periode "Edo" and periode "Meiji". As his first novel "Dancer"in wich he told his uncompleated love in Germany(at that time,having a foreign wife was a taboo), Mori tried to show the example of a conflict of natural feeling of love and the traditional superstition.Why the girl could not acheave her love? In Japan they said that a real love is a love forbidden, but it is sure that what Mori wanted to say in this book is not that beauty.