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Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Shining with a self-effacing humour, Tanizaki's last novel is ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be n ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$15.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical realism and precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and eac ...Show more
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