The River Ki - Sawako Ariyoshi

The River Ki dominates the lives of the people who live in its fertile valley and imparts a vital strength to three women - mother, daughter and granddaughter - around whom this novel is built. It provides them with the courage to cope with the unprecedented changes that occurred in Japan around the late 19th, early 20th centuries. The River Ki, short and swift and broad like most Japanese rivers, flows into the sea not far south of Osaka. On its journey seaward, it passes through countryside that has long been at the heart of the Japanese tradition. And it flows too