| Record Number |
824409 |
| ISBN |
9781784875435 (paperbak) |
| Author |
Tanizaki, Junʼichirō, 1886-1965 author. |
| Title |
The Makioka sisters / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by Edward Seidensticker. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Vintage Classics, 2019. |
| ©1983 |
| Pagination etc. |
562 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage classic Japanese series |
| Contents note |
This translation originally published: New York: Knopf, 1957. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Japanese. |
| Subject |
Japanese fiction -- Translations into English |
| Sisters -- Japan -- Fiction |
| Families -- Japan -- Fiction |
| Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945 -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Seidensticker, Edward, 1921-2007 translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F TANI |
