Naomi Junichiro Tanizaki and Anthony H. Chambers

Review "Immensely satisfying." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "In a class with Lady Chatterley's Lover and Lolita... Powerfully erotic, direly funny, a great novelist's masterpiece." -- Booklist "Tanizaki's prose is clean and inviting and the character of Joji exquisitely drawn, his uncomprehending guilelessness the perfect tool for the author's deft cross-cultural thrusts." -- The Washington Post Book World "The experience of reading it is scandalously good." -- The Village Voice "To read Naomi as anything but a shrewd commentary on Japan's infatuation with the West is to trivialize the author's resourcefulness and Japan's predicament... A handsome addition to the steadily increasing library of Japanese literature in English." -- The New York Times Book Review Product Description During the period between the World Wars, the narrator describes his marriage to Naomi, a young cafe hostess who is infatuated with Western fashion From Publishers Weekly The Westernization of a Japanese bar girl spells trouble for her husband. "Charm, lucidity, fascination with perverse passion and relentless emotional honesty . . . are all here in subtle force," said PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886. Author of more than twelve novels, he was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949. He died in 1964.