Woman Running in the Mountains One of Bill Gates's "5

One of Bill Gates's "5 books to read this summer

From the limestone caves of the Loire to the sun-drenched hills of Sicily

practical ways to ask better questions

and has been journeying along it ever since

consciousness to creativity

Woman Running in the Mountains One of Bill Gates's "5Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a