"The Makioka Sisters" ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Junichiro Tanizaki, der das Leben von vier Schwestern in den Jahren vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg darstellt. Die Handlung dreht sich um die ehemals wohlhabende und angesehene...

Vintage Classic edition. von Tanizaki, Junichiro

"Childhood Years: A Memoir" ist eine autobiografische Erzählung des berühmten japanischen Schriftstellers Junichiro Tanizaki. Das Buch bietet einen tiefen Einblick in das Leben und die Entwicklung Tanizakis während seiner Kindheit und...

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...

Ein Universitätsprofessor, der fürchtet, seiner attraktiven, elf Jahre jüngeren Ehefrau sexuell nicht mehr zu genügen, sucht nach einem Weg, seinem Eheleben neuen Schwung zu verleihen. Seine zur Prüderie erzogene Frau pflegt die...

Four sisters live in dilapidated houses, the daughters of a once-great merchant family of Osaka. Each of the women navigates her own complex relationship to the fading lustre of the Makioka family name, in the years leading up to the...

"Considering all I've sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?"Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home, status and respectability, but the...

Junichiro Tanizaki was one of Japan's greatest twentienth century novelists. Born in 1886 in Tokyo, his first published work - a one-act play - appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found. Tanizaki lived in the...

Junichiro Tanizaki was one of Japan's greatest twentienth century novelists. Born in 1886 in Tokyo, his first published work - a one-act play - appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found. Tanizaki lived in the...

In Praise of Shadows von Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro

Junichiro 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 a classic of international literature....

Junichiro 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 a classic of international literature....