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Naomi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724749)
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Junichiro Tanizaki
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xA hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion--from a master Japanese novelist.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the na?e girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki's masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Author: Junichiro Tanizaki
ISBN-10: 0375724745
ISBN-13: 9780375724749
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.22w x 0.56d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/20/2001 pg. 44
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the na?e girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki's masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Author: Junichiro Tanizaki
ISBN-10: 0375724745
ISBN-13: 9780375724749
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.22w x 0.56d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/20/2001 pg. 44
By Junichiro Tanizaki
xJUNICHIRO TANIZAKI was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived in the city until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of one of his most well-known novels, The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). The author of over twenty books, including Naomi (1924), Some Prefer Nettles (1928), Arrowroot (1931), and A Portrait of Shunkin (1933), Tanizaki also published translations of the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji in 1941, 1954, and 1965. Several of his novels, including Quicksand (1930), The Key (1956), and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) were made into movies. He was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949, and in 1965 he became the first Japanese writer to be elected as an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Tanizaki died in 1965.
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