{"product_id":"2026200011495-secondhand-the-makioka-sisters","title":"The Makioka Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the shimmering, melancholic backdrop of late 1930s Osaka, The Makioka Sisters chronicles the twilight of an aristocratic merchant family as Japan itself stands on the precipice of war. The four Makioka sisters — dignified Tsuruko, practical Sachiko, wayward Yukiko, and spirited Taeko — each embody a fractured piece of a fading world, their lives consumed by the increasingly desperate search for a suitable husband for the reticent third sister, Yukiko, while the youngest, Taeko, scandalously forges her own modern path. Tanizaki constructs this domestic drama with the patience and precision of a master craftsman, weaving together marriage negotiations, seasonal cherry-blossom viewings, and social proprieties into a richly textured portrait of a society caught between tradition and modernity.\n\nWidely regarded as Japan's greatest post-war novel, The Makioka Sisters stands as a supreme achievement in 20th-century world literature, earning comparisons to the grand social novels of Tolstoy and Proust. Tanizaki's prose — rendered into English by Edward Seidensticker in a translation of extraordinary fidelity — moves with a deceptively gentle, elegiac rhythm that gradually reveals the irreversible erosion of an entire way of life. Beneath its serene, almost ceremonial surface lies a profound meditation on gender, class, and cultural identity, leaving the reader to wonder whether the sisters' world will survive the storm that history has already made inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130843963611,"sku":"2026200011495-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7258fa15-2630-4d8d-9282-1e8b3f1a7127.png?v=1786591065","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011495-secondhand-the-makioka-sisters","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}