Tanizaki's masterwork follows an Osaka merchant family in the late 1930s, but its portrait of Japanese society navigating modernization, tradition, and impending war illuminates the same tensions visible in Tokyo's streetscape today. The novel captures with extraordinary precision how a culture holds onto old forms while changing everything underneath. One of the great Japanese novels.
The Makioka Sisters
| Author | Jun'ichirÅ Tanizaki |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-0679761648 |