The wild goose | Ojai Mori

The prominent Japanese novelist Oujay Mori presents in The Wild Goose a touching story of unfulfilled love, set in 1880, against the backdrop of the astonishing social change accompanying the Meiji Restoration. The poverty forces the young heroine, Otama, to become the mistress of a broker who calculates and plans every step, but this stable situation turns upside down when she meets the handsome medical student Okada, and falls in love with him, becoming both the target of her desires and a symbol of her salvation. Like those around her, and like the wild goose, Otama longs for freedom, and with the development of her consciousness, the novel reaches its moving climax. This story was written in 1913, and is considered one of the masterpieces of modern Japanese literature, translated into many languages, and adapted into a famous film titled The Mistress, which received great acclaim.