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Mitsuyo Kakuta

Born

in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

March 08, 1967

Genre

Fiction, Children's

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Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She has been working continuously as an author ever since, never having had to support herself with a separate job. Three nominations for the Akutagawa Prize serve as a measure of the promise with which she was regarded from early in her career. Then, at the encouragement of an editor, she shifted toward the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, where she garnered a much broader readership with works depicting the lives of women in her generation, from their mid-thirties to forties. After publishing two brill ...more

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	Woman on the Other Shore by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Wayne P. Lammers (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Mitsuyo Kakuta 4.10 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luna de papel by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Fernando Cordobés (Traductor), Yoko Ogihara (Traductora) 3.75 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tôi Bị Bố Bắt Cóc 3.77 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	หนังสือเล่มหนา กาลเวลา และผู้คน by Mitsuyo Kakuta, มิซึโยะ คาคุตะ, อังสนา ธาดาประภากร (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sushi misto dopo l'amore e altri racconti by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Federica Lippi (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	坡道上的家 by Mitsuyo Kakuta, 角田光代, 楊明綺 (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mama's Boy: A Short Story 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pieces: A Short Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Luck Bag: A Short Story 3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But to me, it's a whole
lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of
being alone, rather than to have so many friends that you wind up
being terrified of solitude.”
― Mitsuyo Kakuta, Woman on the Other Shore

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“She
was afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented
a loss rather than a gain.”
― Mitsuyo Kakuta, Woman on the Other Shore

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“There's that, too, but more than that, what people are saying
about me right now, it's not really about me, it's about them. It's not
my baggage to carry. Why should I want to shoulder everybody else's
burdens and beat myself up over their problems? I'm not that bighearted.”
― Mitsuyo Kakuta, Woman on the Other Shore

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