{"product_id":"9780749397104","title":"The Makioka Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro, Seidensticker, Edward G. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/07\/1993,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 576 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780749397104,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour sisters live in dilapidated houses, the daughters of a once-great merchant family of Osaka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57697510228341,"sku":"9780749397104","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780749397104.jpg?v=1793099269","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780749397104","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}