# The Wild Geese

- Author: Ogai Mori
- Translator: Kingo Ochiai and Sanford Goldstein
- Original title (Japanese): 雁
- First published: 1913
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- This edition: 2009
- ISBN: 9784805308844
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); Japanese Literature in Translation

## Card

A moneylender's kept mistress begins to watch for a student who walks past her house each day.  
Short, restrained, and observant, it lets desire live mostly in glances and small hesitations.  
For a night of slow walks home.  

## About this book

Otama, raised by a poor widowed father, agrees to become the mistress of a moneylender so the old man can live in comfort. Kept in a small house near the university, she begins to notice a medical student who passes by on his daily walk. The story is told by the student's friend, looking back on those days years later. What stays is the quiet pull between longing and circumstance in a city that is changing fast.

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