Author: Tanizaki Junichiro
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Childhood years : a memoir
Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s early years offers a moving look at one of Japan’s modern novelists.
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The reed cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s mother : two novellas
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In praise of shadows
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels
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Naomi
Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford.