The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki Jacq Vogelaar

The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki Jacq VogelaarTanizaki'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 of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, and brings a vanished era to vibrant life.

It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship

Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people

his identity slips away

In spite of the perpetrators' intentions

they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive

overladen met prijzen en stond meer dan een jaar onafgebroken in de bestsellerlijsten

loopt als een leidraad door zijn leven en dagboeken

Bradley Pearson

Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and

door Argentinië op zoek naar het zeldzaamste en meest ongrijpbare dier: de legibrerische haas

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets

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