Junichiro Tanizaki
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Quicksand
$19.00 Add to cartQuicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betraya… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 24 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760229
- Language: English
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The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man
$16.95 Add to cartThese two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.
In The Key, a middle-aged professor p- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1400079004
- Language: English
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Naomi
$18.00 Add to cartA hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion–from a master Japanese novelist.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375724745
- Language: English
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Seven Japanese Tales
$17.00 Add to cartJunichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradit… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761071
- Language: English
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Devils in Daylight
$12.95 Read moreOne morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he h… [more below]
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228754
- Language: English
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A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
$15.95 Add to cartThe three pieces in this collection–the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”–are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of … [more below]
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 27 2015
- ISBN10: 081122449X
- Language: English
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The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories
$18.00 Add to cartLavishly opulent stories of sensual obsession, cultural heritage, and mythological creatures–translated into English for the first time–from a classic Japanese writer
Featuring “The Qilin,” “The Sir- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278095
- Language: English
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In Praise of Shadows
$11.95 Add to cartAn essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri… [more below]
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0918172020
- Language: English
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The Makioka Sisters
$19.00 Add to cartJunichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761640
- Language: English
