The Makioka Sisters - Brossura

Tanizaki, Junichiro

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749397101 ISBN 13: 9780749397104

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1993

Riassunto

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 pride, and brings a vanished era to vibrant life.

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Recensione:

"Exquisite craftsmanship" (Guardian)

"An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade, during the Forties and Fifties, I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century" (David Mitchell Daily Express)

"A complex, detailed and agreeably gossipy book...The author's obvious nostalgia for this vanished world does not prevent him from looking objectively at its darker side and this, together with his artful blend of the exotic and the mundane, creates an absorbing and richly textured story" (Sunday Times)

"A subtle, moving novel" (The Times)

"A classic novel of a whole country about to turn on the terrible hinge of the war into modernity; its tone is elegiac and bleak" (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book Review

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0749397101
• ISBN 13: 9780749397104
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576