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(3/5)August 20, 2023
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harder than 痴人の愛L41
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similar in difficulty to 幼少時代L43
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harder than 偉大なる、しゅららぼんL36
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similar in difficulty to 山椒大夫・高瀬舟L45
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similar in difficulty to 細雪 上L41
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harder than 御宿かわせみL40
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similar in difficulty to 増補 日本語が亡びるとき: 英語の世紀の中でL40
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harder than 三四郎L40
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similar in difficulty to 陰翳礼讃L43
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easier than 吾輩は猫であるL48
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similar in difficulty to 雪国L46
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harder than 巷説百物語L42
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harder than 名人L41
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harder than 姑獲鳥の夏 1 【電子百鬼夜行】L40
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harder than とかげL36
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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