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This one isn’t long, at 260 pages, but it took me a while to work through, and it spent a long time half-finished in the in-progress pile while I ignored it in favour of other books…
The book is set in Kyoto in the 1950s, and is about 千重子, a foundling who is taken in by a cloth-merchant family and raised as their only daughter. At the age of 20 she has a chance meeting with the twin sister she never knew she had, who was kept by their birth parents and raised in much poorer conditions in a vill