Tamaki、Tōru (International) assertion Tamaki、Tōru i(A143832 works by) (birth name: 玉木・亨)
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3 32 y separately published work icon The Bride Stripped Bare Nikki Gemmell , ( trans. Tamaki、Tōru with title Hadaka ni sareta hanayome )with title 裸にされた花嫁 ) Tokyo : Bungei Shunju , 2005 Z987747 2003 single work novel (taught in 4 units) A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. Inspired by a manuscript written by an anonymous Elizabethan woman who dared to speak of what women truly desire, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, How long can she sustain a perilous double life?" "In writing The Bride Stripped Bare, the author decided to remain anonymous so she would feel absolutely free to explore a woman's inner world. As she writes in her afterword, "That doesn't mean this book is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not only from my stories but those of my friends. (Source: Trove)
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