Book of Loss There is First a General

There is First a General Account of the Nature of Language and of the Aims

and Striking Out on Her Own With an Intellectual and Existential Ambition Exceedingly Rare in a Young Woman in the 1920S

Labelled and Annotated Diagrams Enhance Learning

and Does Not Assume Too Much of the Reader

but Alive and Safe

Book of Loss There is First a GeneralThe Book of Loss Takes the Reader on an Ambitious Journey Deep Into the Psyche of a Group of Women and Their Social Environment of 10Th Century Japan. It is a World of Emotional Intensity and Paucity of Freedom. the Court of the Emperor Where the Mysterious Narrator and Her Rival Izumi Live is Tightly Bound With Complex Social Rules. the Hierarchy is Extreme, and Despite Their Own Relative High Ranks, in the Presence of the Empress They Are Nothing.