 Her first novel, "Light and Darkness Continued," a sequel to Natsume Sōseki's unfinished classic, and her second, "An I Novel From Left to Right," a fictionalized autobiography, were first serialized in quarterly journals edited by the literary critic Kojin Karatani.Her third, "A True Novel," a re-telling of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in postwar Japan, was first serialized in the monthly literary journal "Shinchō.