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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics
Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home, status and respectability, but the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared with her husband. As Shinako pleads for Lily's return, Shozo's reluctance to par ...Show more
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics
Description: The three pieces in this collection-the novella "A Cat, A Man, and Two Women" and two shorter pieces "The Little Kingdom" and "Professor Rado"-are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki's favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated e ...Show more
Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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
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
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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
Category: Non-Fiction
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 no ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
Category: Classics
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 no ...Show more
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by e ...Show more
The Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realise ...Show more
The Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics
The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work before, during, and after WWII in the pampered, elegant household of the famous aut ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
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
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of prid ...Show more