Date 16 September 2022
Pages 175
Format cm 17 x 20
Price € 21.90
EAN 9791096405701
Publisher Website www.editions-akinome.com

Japan: An Abecedary of Thwarted Love

Publisher Akinomé
Japan fascinates, astonishes, amazes. But... Japan is a very difficult country to live in, especially for a foreign woman.

For 25 years, Florence Costa lived in Japan. She speaks and writes Japanese, married a Japanese man, and had three children. In 2016, she returned to France in 2016 after a complicated divorce. To help us better understand a country unlike any other, she has decided to tell her story, lifting the veil on 25 years of her life: of founding a family, of adopting habits and customs to better integrate. But the hell of bento every morning, the rigidity of codes, the demands of school life, and the status of women got the better of her. With humor and tears, she takes us on a journey to the heart of her private life, revealing the dark sides of her adopted home.