Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics: The Makioka Sisters (Hardcover)

from xieouyang

This is a well-written novel about four sisters, from an upper middle-class family whose both parents are dead, and who deal with tradition under changing circumstances. I found very enjoyable and the detailed, long character descriptions make the story most interesting. Tanizaki brings his chara...

from EpicTale

"The Makioka Sisters" (TMS) was a fine book. It had the same kind of satisfying depth and intimacy which I have enjoyed when listening to good chamber music. By way of comparison, "Remains of the Day" comes to mind. The story includes multiple protagonists, all of whom are pretty interesting. I l...

from antiquary

The only work of Tanizaki I really like; instead of being about bizarre corrupt types, it is about a quite nice ordinary set of Japanese sisters whose chief concern remains marrying off one of them even as World War II comes on. There is also a vivid sense of the cultural diffferences between the...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

The Makioka Sisters Now here is something. A book of mind numbing detail. Pages and pages of it. Ritual, protocol and discipline. Sounds bad but it is wonderful. It is the story of 4 sisters in Japan from the turn of the 20th  Century up to and into WW2. It is about their lives, the shape of...

from Niecierpek

**Spoilers alert*** I must admit that the book is flawlessly written, but I can't agree with Junichiro's ideals regarding women. The book is about four sisters from a traditional upper class family. One of the sisters, Yukiko, is a traditional young Japanese woman waiting to be married, always pa...