Some Prefer Nettles

Informationen zum Autor Junichiro Tanizaki was one of Japan's greatest twentienth century novelists. Born in 1886 in Tokyo, his first published work - a one-act play - appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found. Tanizaki lived in the cosmopolitan Tokyo area until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region and became absorbed in Japan's past. All his most important works were written after 1923, among them Some Prefer Nettles (1929), The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935), several modern versions of The Tale of Genji (1941, 1954 and 1965), The Makioka Sisters , The Key (1956) and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961). He was awarded an Imperial Award for Cultural Merit in 1949 and in 1965 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese writer to receive this honour. Tanizaki died later that same year. Klappentext The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Zusammenfassung The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.

Product details

• Authors: Junichiro Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780099283379
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928337-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction