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Quicksand
Quicksand | Junichiro Tanizaki
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Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most extraordinary characters, the beautiful and corrupt art student Mitsuko.
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Sha0102
Quicksand | Junichiro Tanizaki
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What a great book. Such a fast pacing interesting narrative. **vortex (translation from the Portuguese title)- a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.** Entertaining level: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #livro #book #bookaholic #booklovers #ler #leitura #leitora #reading #instabook #instaread #instabooks #bookstagram #igread #litsy #booklover #Sha2017

MrBook Love this post! 👍🏻 7y
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MariettaSG
Quicksand | Junichiro Tanizaki

A married repressed lesbian falls in love with a beautiful art student who has been lured into engagement with a blackmailing eunuch who has enlisted the help of the student's maid whilst the repressed lesbian's husband also has sex with the art student who is actually bisexual and can't decide who she loves more while drugging one another with sleeping pills and feigning suicide pacts. Quicksand, an appropriate title, for how reading it feels.

MariettaSG Having said all that it isn't that hard to read. To me it speaks of how complicated matters become when humans cannot trust at least one other human in their most intimate relationships. 7y
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MariettaSG
Quicksand | Junichiro Tanizaki
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@ bookriot #ReadHarder
7. read a book published between 1900 and 1950
11. read a book set more than 5000 miles from your home
20. read a LGBTQ romance novel

And #LitsyAtoZ Q

Grabbed this from my local library to broaden my reading of world literature (original in Japanese), no idea it would meet so many bookriot challenges.

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