The Maids

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Product Details

Price
$22.95  $21.34
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811224925

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About the Author

Author of The Makioka Sisters, In Praise of Shadows, and A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century.
Michael P. Cronin is assistant professor of Japanese at the College of William and Mary.

Reviews

Skillfully and subtly, Tanizaki brushes in a delicate picture of a gentle world that no longer exists.
Tanizaki is a very brilliant novelist.--Haruki Murakami
It's as if David Lynch wrote a season of Mad Men, with an emphasis on the women. Tanizaki's a really great writer.--David Mitchell
The Maids is altogether lighter, freer, and more playful than The Makioka Sisters?a busily peopled and remarkably sensual group portrait. The short novel teems with life and has a flavor all its own, a joyful, comic, improvisational quality rupturing the elegiac tone announced in its opening pages. Tanizaki's remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures.-- (08/18/2017)