Six stories. Hayashi F.

Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951) is well known in her homeland, but almost unfamiliar to the Russian reader. As a child, she lived in extreme poverty, having matured, wandered around the country for many years. The hardships did not break the girl, she studied stubbornly, worked a lot and achieved success - her first autobiographical novel “The Tramp Diary” (1930) became a bestseller. During her short life, Fumiko Hayashi wrote several novels, many stories and scanning prisoners, sent reports to newspapers from military theaters in Southeast Asia, visited China and Europe. She received several prestigious awards, her works were repeatedly filmed. After the death of the writer, the museum was opened, and in the city where she spent her childhood, a bronze monument was erected.

The book offered to the attention of readers first published in Russian in 1960 and since then has never been reprinted. The stories included in it give the most complete idea of ​​the work of the writer.

Translation from Japanese: D. Andreev, Ya. Berlin, Z. Rakhim, V. Smirnov, A. Khmelnitsky, I. Ehrenburg