The Makioka Sisters

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By Junichiro Tanizaki

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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 Second World War. Rich with breathtaking descriptions of ancient customs and an ever-changing natural world, Tanizaki evokes in poignant detail a long-lost way of life even as it withers under the harsh glare of modernity.
'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell
'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

The Makioka Sisters