A review by mrswythe89
Năm Người Đàn Bà Si Tình by Ihara Saikaku

4.0

Punchy and amusing; also interesting for stern format of straying lovers who die or enter nunneries/monasteries. But they are sympathetic stories, even though the characters who stray from the (occasionally obscure) dictates of society must by ruthless moral logic of narrative's world be punished. There were more English translations of Saikaku's stories in the bookshop where I picked these up; wish I'd got more of them.