Beyond the blossoming fields / Jun®ichi Watanabe ; traducción: Deborah Iwabuchi, Anna Isozaki
- Richmond : Alma Books, 2008
- 313 páginas
Título original: Hanauzumi Originalmente publicada: Tokyo : Kawade Shobåo Shinsha, 1970
Literatura
This novel try a young girl life from a wealthy family, Ginco Ogino who seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth century Japan. But when she contracts gonorhoea from her husband, she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear the humillation of being treated by male doctors, she resolves to become a doctor herself in order to treat fellow female sufferers and spare them some of the shame she had to endure