Quicksand

Title: Quicksand
Author: Junichiro Tanizaki
ISBN: 9780679760221
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st Vintage Internat
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher Description: Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be entranced by Tanizaki's seminal novel.

At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is "beautifully and mysteriously contrived."--Newsday