Three-Way Relationship -- New Series of Works by Japanese and Chinese Female Writers

Author: Yū Komata
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Yū Komata was born in 1960. In 1978, soon after entering the Department of Russian Literature at Waseda University, she embarked on her first overseas journey along the Siberian Railway. The language disconnection and discomfort she experienced during the trip, as well as the conflicts and integration between heterogeneous cultures, became an important theme in her later literary creations. The Dog Son-in-Law Arrives weaves reality with absurdity, describing the process of a female teacher who runs a private tutoring center engaging in a sexual relationship with a mysterious man who has transformed from a dog.