Fumiko Hayashi

A Late Chrysanthemum

Short story collection exploring the quiet dignity of ordinary lives

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Fumiko Hayashi
Fumiko Hayashi

Japanese novelist of the Taisho and Showa eras whose autobiographical Diary of a Vagabond captured the hardships of a woman artist living in poverty with startling candor and lyrical energy.

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