The Makioka Sisters
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings4
Average rating3.5
The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book ReviewTanizaki'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 pride, and brings a vanished era to vibrant life.
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I love how, both plot-wise and prose-wise, this is sedate on the surface but absolutely roiling with meaning and emotion underneath. Frickin electric.
