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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe s The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly whe ...Show more
Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Black and White: A Novel by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno is working on a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When he notices that this man's real na ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
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 Junichiro Tanizaki
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 Junichiro Tanizaki
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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: Culture & Ideas | 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 Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'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
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Category: Fiction | 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
The Siren's Lament - Essential Stories by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy