—John UpdikeTanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings.
Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886. He was “the outstanding Japanese novelist of the century” (Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review). His numerous works include The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows.
Translated from the Japanese by J. Keith Vincent
Translated from the Japanese by Michael P. Cronin
Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy
—CaravanWhat unfolds is a murder mystery that is an homage to the classic American writer Edgar Allen Poe, and a meditation on the art of fiction. The author, Junichiro Tanizaki, was arguably Japan’s greatest twentieth-century novelist.
—Kirkus ReviewsTanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself.
—San Francisco ChronicleSkillfully and subtly, Tanizaki brushes in a delicate picture of a gentle world that no longer exists.
—Haruki MurakamiTanizaki is a very brilliant novelist.
—Henry MillerTanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love.
—John UpdikeTanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings.
—Edmund WhiteThe outstanding Japanese novelist of this century.
