The waiting years /
[by] Fumiko Enchi. Translated by John Bester.
- Tokyo : Kodansha International, 1971.
- 203 p. 19 cm.
Translation of Onnazaka.
"In a series of brilliant, unnerving scenes, the novel evokes the human interplay within one upper-class family in the dying years of the nineteenth century. Above all, it describes the courage and distress of several women caught in a web of shifting relationships; it is these women who live on in the memory."-- Front cover flap.