Naomi
$35.50
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2001
Summary
VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICS
A classic work from Junichiro Tanizaki, the writer who launched Japanese literature into the modern era, Naomi is a Japanese Lolita, telling the story of an older man obsessed with developing a teenage girl into his dream woman.
A 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 la…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375724749 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375724745 |
| Author: | Junichiro Tanizaki |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“In a class with Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lolita … . Powerfully erotic, directly funny, a great novelist’s masterpiece.” – Booklist
“In a class with Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lolita… . Powerfully erotic, directly funny, a great novelist’s masterpiece.” –Booklist
“Joji [is] exquisitely drawn, his uncomprehending guilelessness the perfect tool for the author’s deft cross-cultural thrusts.” –The Washington Post Book Review
About The Author
Junichiro Tanizaki
Junichiro 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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