Two or three times a day I think to myself: maybe I`ll die today. While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body. Though impotent and in pain he notes down his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, Westernised dancer with a shady past. Written when the author himself was an old man and shining with self-effacing humour, Tanizaki`s last novel is a tragicomedy about desire and the will to survive. `Lightly comic, lyrically evocative and savagely cruel` New York Times `An artistic masterpiece` Irish Times
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