Overview :Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. Whe... Read More
Overview :The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years--before, during, and after WWII--many women work in the pampered, e... Read More
Overview :Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dul... Read More
Overview :Junichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is argua... Read More
Overview :The three pieces in this collection--the novella "A Cat, A Man, and Two Women" and two shorter pieces "The Little Kingdom" and "Professor Ra... Read More
Overview :Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, Devils in Daylight is an early work by the master storyteller who "created a lifelong series of ingenious va... Read More
Overview :An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of ... Read More
Overview :Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition--and the profound... Read More
Overview :Junichiro Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the cont... Read More
Overview :These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love ... Read More
Overview :From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychologic... Read More
Overview :The three pieces in this collection--the novella "A Cat, A Man, and Two Women" and two shorter pieces "The Little Kingdom" and "Professor Ra... Read More