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Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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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 Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Fiction | 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 Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Fiction | 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
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