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The Makioka Sisters

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Written by Junichiro TanizakiAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Junichiro Tanizaki

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: September 26, 1995
  • Price: $16.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-76164-8 (0-679-76164-0)
Also available as a hardcover.
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In Osaka, in the years immediately before W.W.II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. The story of the Makioka sisters is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the 20th century, a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family--and society--sliding into the abyss of modernity. Filled with vignettes of upper-class Japanese life and capturing both the decorum and the heartache of its protagonists, The Makioka Sisters is a classic of international literature. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.