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Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724749Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
The Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki 9780811224925
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811224925Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Maids by Junichiro Tanizaki 9780811228749
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87The 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... -
Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki 9780811228756
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he... -
The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki 9780749397104
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life... -
In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays Junichiro Tanizaki 9784805319352
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.94"In Praise of Shadows belongs to that special order of slim, enormously powerful books that enchant the lay reader with an esoteric subject, leaving a lifelong imprint on the imagination." -Maria... -
The Makioka Sisters: Vintage Classics Japanese Series by Junichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.18An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In... -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition Junichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the... -
The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki 9781400079001
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079001Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprin -
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki 9780375719318
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375719318Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprin -
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a... -
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal... -
Seven Japanese Tales by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761075Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprin -
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up... -
Some Prefer Nettles by J Tanizaki 9780679752691
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752691Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprin -
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New... -
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 9780099771517
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.98'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a... -
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Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden 9780099282853 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.11This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the... -
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami by Haruki Murakami
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past?In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the... -
The Good Wife's Castle by Roland Vernon 9781784163181
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98The unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten underground bunker; a middle aged clergyman at a crisis point in his life, drawn into an... -
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and... -
Out by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a... -
Out: Vintage Classics Japanese Series by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.18In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A... -
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken... -
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo.Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of... -
Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light by Simon Unwin
Booksplease Price: $33.66Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation... -
Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanisaki 9780679761648
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $17.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761648Author Junichiro TanizakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprin -
The Secret History Of The Lord Of Musashi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their controlled complexities of tone, both bear the... -
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Geisha by Liza Dalby 9780099286387 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.99Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of... -
Geisha by Liza Dalby
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of... -
The Tattoo and Other Stories Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9784805319598
Booksplease Price: $18.81"A writer of wicked subtlety and grace." -The Sunday Times (London)The eight stories in this dazzling collection-including three that appear here in English for the first time-showcase the sunning... -
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 9780099552147
Booksplease Price: $6.02'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a... -
Deep River Shusaku Endo 9781805331551
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Endo is one of the world's greatest novelists' Washington PostA group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the... -
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The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9781857151558
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Hailed as the greatest Japanese novel of the Twentieth century, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is a subtle tale of domestic oppression worthy of Balzac or Chekhov, In this saga of the once prosperous but now... -
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9780918172020
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.51An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes... -
Diary Of A Mad Old Man by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a... -
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their... -
Quicksand by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A 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...