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What a beautiful novel, I am going to use a word that another reviewer used: melancholy. Set in Japan just prior and even during WWII (up to 1941). Tanizaki has given us a view of a declining aristocratic Osakan family in a traditional world that is rapidly changing. The four Makioka sisters are orphans, and the two older sisters, who are married are trying desperately to find a husband for the third sister. I have read several books by Japanese authors, and have enjoyed them all, but I think th
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