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Quicksand
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Description for Quicksand
Paperback. Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.
With an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099485612
SKU
V9780099485612
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About Junichiro Tanizaki
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 cosmopolitan Tokyo area until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region and became absorbed in Japan's past. ... Read more
Reviews for Quicksand
A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting
Kirkus Reviews
Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures
Washington Times
A harrowing black comedy of love and death
Chicago Tribune
Beautifully and ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews
Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures
Washington Times
A harrowing black comedy of love and death
Chicago Tribune
Beautifully and ... Read more