Courtyard with Forking Paths

About This Novel

Nobuko was born into a wealthy family, highly educated and talented. In order to escape the suffocating mental pressure of her native family, she got married early but failed. Later, she met Mozi, a fellow writer in her creative career, and the two began to live together as female writers. Although she had lived a comfortable life of financial independence after her divorce, Nobuko discovered that her purpose was much more than that. She has always been troubled by the question of "what should I live for as a person?" And the many women around her, including her mother and female close friend Motoko, are all women but have completely different outlooks on life. Wanting to truly open up a new life, Nobuko found that she had to make endless choices, and her desires and emotions were also ups and downs in the stormy era... As the sequel to "Nobuko's Escape", "The Garden of Forking Paths" is also a work with strong autobiography of Yuriko Miyamoto. In 1924, under the introduction of Natsume Soseki's female apprentice Nogami Yayoi, Yuriko met the Russian literary translator Yuasa Yoshiko. The two hit it off and became close friends. This book is Yuriko's novel based on herself and Yoshiko. The content is not only a continuation of a series of events involving family disputes and emotional entanglements, but also tells more about the friction between individuals and society and the state machine. However, under the social conditions of war and deprivation of human rights in Japan at that time, the issues of feminism and communism discussed in the book were difficult to see the light of day.

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