Quicksand

Vintage Classics

By: Junichiro Tanizaki

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Paperback | 7 February 1995 | Edition Number 1

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192 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 1.7

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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 queer classic. Sonoko must tell her story. Listen and decide for yourself.

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 but as Sonoko's infatuation with Mitsuko deepens, she finds herself sinking ever-further into a quicksand of sex, humiliation and deceit.

'A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty' Kirkus Reviews

'Classic Tanizaki...exuberant storytelling within a multi-layered narrative of sexual obsession' Japan Times

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KRISTEN ROUPENIAN

Industry Reviews

"Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov [and] teases us with forbidden pleasures" * Washington Times * "Beautifully and mysteriously contrived" * Newsday * "A harrowing black comedy of love and death" * Chicago Tribune *

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