{"product_id":"woman-running-in-the-mountains-9781681375977","title":"Woman Running in the Mountains","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a casual affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge but also an instrument for her long-wished-for independence. Takiko's first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn, learning how to accommodate him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt first Takiko seeks refuge in the company of other women, in the maternity hospital, in her son's nursery, but as he grows, her life becomes less circumscribed, expanding outward into previously unknown neighborhoods in her city and then beyond, into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and feeling for a wilder freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in Japan in 1980, \u003ci\u003eWoman Running in the Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e is as urgent and necessary an account today of the experience of the female body and of a woman's right to self-determination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yuko Tsushima","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574488047797,"sku":"9781681375977","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7b0c7eb5-353c-4e59-aadc-32c6c9ce691a.jpg?v=1643694947","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/woman-running-in-the-mountains-9781681375977","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}