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The Makioka sisters / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Vintage Classics, 2019.Description: 562 pages ; 19 cmISBN:- 9781784875435 (paperbak)
- Sasameyuki. English
- 895.6344 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | TAN | Issued | 09/05/2024 | 063576 |
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This translation originally published: New York: Knopf, 1957.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and each navigate their own complex, personal relationship to the fading lustre of the Makioka family name. Rich with breathtaking descriptions of ancient customs and an ever-changing natural world, Junichiro Tanizaki evokes in loving detail a long-lost way of life even as it withers under the harsh glare of modernity.
Translated from the Japanese.
