Wild Geese

In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. Surrounded by a cast of skillfully-drawn characters, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight enjoyed by the wild geese of the title. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.