Quicksand
Junichiro Tanizaki author Kristen Roupenian editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:17th Nov '94
Should be back in stock very soon
A startling novel from this master of Japanese fiction, dealing with obsessive love, corruption and beauty.
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.
With an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'
A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting * Kirkus Reviews *
Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures * Washington Times *
A harrowing black comedy of love and death * Chicago Tribune *
Beautifully and mysteriously contrived * Newsday *
ISBN: 9780099485612
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 142g
192 pages