Fiction
Masks
Fumiko Enchi's 1958 novel follows a widow and her mother-in-law as they move through Noh theater, sexual jealousy, and generational inheritance in postwar Japan. The masks of the title are literal props and also a way of thinking about the faces women are expected to wear. It is cool, controlled, and quietly merciless.Knopf's edition, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, presents the novel in a compact hardcover format. A sharp introduction to a writer who deserves to be better known outside Japan; for readers who prefer their revenge served in a low voice, behind a painted smile.
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