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The Makioka sisters
Title:
The Makioka sisters
Author:
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965.
Uniform Title:
Sasameyuki. English
Edition:
First Vintage International edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, [1957]

©1957
Physical Description:
530 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. The story of these women, the Makioka sisters, forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century, a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family--and an entire society--sliding into the abyss of modernity. Tsuruko, the eldest sister, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family's exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances. The resulting novel is filled with vignettes of upper-class Japanese life, capturing both the decorum and the heartache of its protagonists.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
980 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780679761648
Format :
Book