A hardcover literary work, "Nobuko," by Yuriko Miyamoto. In 1918, Nobuko Sasa, a promising young novelist, travels to America with her father, who is going there for work, and begins her studies. Her father contracts the Spanish flu, and Nobuko nurses him. During this time, she and Ichiro Tsukuda, a scholar of ancient Oriental languages whom she met in the process, fall in love and marry in New York. Nobuko returns to Japan for her mother's childbirth and tries to build a new family with Tsukuda. However, she continues to struggle with her relationship with her mother, friction with her husband, and her growth as a novelist. Eventually, the rift between the couple widens, and they decide to divorce. - Title: Nobuko - Author: Yuriko Miyamoto - Binding: Hardcover - Condition: With dust jacket - Approximately 450 pages. Thank you for looking.