The Maids

Name: The Maids
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811228749
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9780811228749

by Junichiro Tanizaki

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0811228746

ISBN-13 9780811228749

Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation

Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 2019

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 212 grams

Dimensions 20.40 x 13.70 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Family saga / generational saga fiction Sagas

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A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel—now available as a paperback

The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years—before, during, and after WWII—many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely close, and somewhat eroticized, observation of all their little ways. In the sensualist patrician Raikichi, Tanizaki offers a richly ironic self-portrait, but he presents as well an exquisitely nuanced chronicle of change and loss: centuries' old values and manners are vanishing, and here—in the evanescent beauty of all the small gestures and intricacies of private life—we find a whole world passing away.

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