Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

Takano Shoko is a beautiful girl born between a rebellious critic and a famous geisha in Yanagibashi. When her father disappeared, Shoko lost her mother in an air raid and became a vagrant child, becoming th...