The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The Makioka Sisters

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

544 pages first pub 1948 (editions)

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
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In Osaka in the years immediately before World War I, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of th...

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