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'A tour de force – catnip.' -- New York Times
Considering all I've sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?
Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost everything: her home, status, and respectability. Yet the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared with her husband. As Shinako pleads for Lily's return, Shozo's reluctance to part with the cat reveals his true affections, and the lengths he'll go to hold onto the one he loves most.
A small masterpiece, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women is a novel about loneliness, love, and companionship of the most unexpected kind. In this story of Japanese society and manners, Tanizaki gives us a perfectly-formed oddball comedy, and a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline.
'Tanizaki is a very brilliant novelist.' -- Haruki Murakami
'A really great writer... Tanizaki has got this warm ticklishness to his strangeness.' -- David Mitchell
'Even his lighter-hearted fictions... make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale.' -- John Updike
'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century.' -- Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
'One of the finest pieces of literature concerning cats ever written.' -- Choice
Considering all I've sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?
Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost everything: her home, status, and respectability. Yet the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared with her husband. As Shinako pleads for Lily's return, Shozo's reluctance to part with the cat reveals his true affections, and the lengths he'll go to hold onto the one he loves most.
A small masterpiece, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women is a novel about loneliness, love, and companionship of the most unexpected kind. In this story of Japanese society and manners, Tanizaki gives us a perfectly-formed oddball comedy, and a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline.
'Tanizaki is a very brilliant novelist.' -- Haruki Murakami
'A really great writer... Tanizaki has got this warm ticklishness to his strangeness.' -- David Mitchell
'Even his lighter-hearted fictions... make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale.' -- John Updike
'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century.' -- Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
'One of the finest pieces of literature concerning cats ever written.' -- Choice
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Junichirô Tanizaki
Junichiro Tanizaki (Tokio, 1886-Yugawara, 1965). Uno de los principales exponentes de la literatura japonesa del siglo XX, se licenció en la universidad de Tokio y pronto se sintió atraído por la literatura occidental. En 1949 fue galardonado con el Premio Imperial de Literatura por su obra La madre del capitán Shigemoto. En 1956, suscitó una gran polémica con su obra La llave por su audacia.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unlike many others, I found the title story to be the least enjoyable. It is by no means bad as it explores some unique territory, but it doesn't hold me as well as most other works I've read by Tanizaki. I found the familiar flavor of the author's charm in "The Little Kingdom" and his usual weird meditations on obsession in "Professor Rado", but in the title story these two trademarks of his style were muddled if not absent altogether.