Childhood years : a memoir
Tanizaki, Junʾichirō, 1886-19651990
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Using a traditional, informal essay style, Tanizaki retrieves his childhood years in roughly chronological order and through character sketches, hilarious anecdotes and images of sensuous beauty, he evokes the texture of life in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo at the end of the 19th century.
Main title:
Childhood years : a memoir / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by Paul McCarthy.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Collins, 1990.
Collation:
[700]p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Notes:
Translation from the Japanese text.
ISBN:
9780002153256
Dewey class:
895.634
Local class:
B
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
1945166