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The Family (Shimazaki novel)
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Wikipedia article
is a Japanese novel written by Tson Shimazaki, first serialized in 191011. This autobiographical novel deals with the disintegration of two provincial families, the Koizumis and the Hashimotos.
Plot
'The Family' covers a period of twelve years in the lives of the Koizumi and the Hashimoto families, from 1898 to 1910. (These two families are based on the real-life families of Shimazaki and Takase: one was Tson's own family and the other the family into which his eldest sister married.) Originally well respected, the families find themselves slipping down the social ladder as their eldest sons, Koizumi Minoru and Hashimoyo Tatsuo, take on disastrous financial projects. The character Sankichi is the youngest son of the Koizumi family, a writer, and an 'alter ego' for the author himself.
Translation
'The Family' was published in an English translation provided by Cecilia Segawa Seigle in 1976.
References
Category:1911 novels
Category:Japanese novels
Category:20th-century Japanese novels
Category:Novels by Tson Shimazaki
Category:Novels first published in serial form
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