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The Makioka Sisters (Reprint Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker, Vintage International Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-679-76164-0 / 0679761640 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76164-8 / 9780679761648 The four Makioka sisters lead very complicated, strenuous lives, although on the surface nothing much ever happens to them. Part of a fading Japanese aristocracy in the years leading up to World War II, they cannot escape the wide net of the family name--something always brings them back to the |