Some Prefer Nettles
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Japanese modernist fiction, Some Prefer Nettles is a quietly devastating psychological novel set in 1920s Osaka, charting the disintegrating marriage of Kaname and Misako as both partners drift toward irreconcilable desires. Tanizaki masterfully contrasts the seductive pull of traditional Japanese aesthetics — puppet theatre, classical music, old Kyoto — against the encroachment of Western modernity, embodying this tension in two very different women who orbit the protagonist. Written with elegant restraint and ironic detachment, the novel turns a deeply personal domestic drama into a meditation on cultural identity, nostalgia, and the cost of indecision. First published in 1929, it remains one of Tanizaki's most celebrated and autobiographically resonant works, and a cornerstone of twentieth-century world literature.
Author: Junichirō Tanizaki
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Japanese modernist fiction, Some Prefer Nettles is a quietly devastating psychological novel set in 1920s Osaka, charting the disintegrating marriage of Kaname and Misako as both partners drift toward irreconcilable desires. Tanizaki masterfully contrasts the seductive pull of traditional Japanese aesthetics — puppet theatre, classical music, old Kyoto — against the encroachment of Western modernity, embodying this tension in two very different women who orbit the protagonist. Written with elegant restraint and ironic detachment, the novel turns a deeply personal domestic drama into a meditation on cultural identity, nostalgia, and the cost of indecision. First published in 1929, it remains one of Tanizaki's most celebrated and autobiographically resonant works, and a cornerstone of twentieth-century world literature.