{"product_id":"quicksand-9780679760221","title":"Quicksand","description":"\u003ci\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, \u003ci\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/i\u003e is \"beautifully and mysteriously contrived.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJunichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his novel \u003cb\u003eThe Makioka Sisters\u003c\/b\u003e (1943-48). Among his works are \u003cb\u003eNaomi\u003c\/b\u003e (1924), \u003cb\u003eSome Prefer Nettles\u003c\/b\u003e (1928), \u003cb\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/b\u003e (1930), \u003cb\u003eArrowroot\u003c\/b\u003e (1931), \u003cb\u003eA Portrait of Shunkin\u003c\/b\u003e (1933), \u003cb\u003eThe Secret History of the Lord of Musashi\u003c\/b\u003e (1935), modern versions of \u003cb\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/b\u003e (1941, 1954, and 1965), \u003cb\u003eCaptain Shigemoto's Mothe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003er \u003c\/i\u003e(1949), \u003cb\u003eThe Key\u003c\/b\u003e (1956), and \u003cb\u003eDiary of a Mad Old Man\u003c\/b\u003e (1961). By 1930 he had gained such renown that an edition of his complete works was published, and he was awarded Japan's Imperial Prize in Literature in 1949. Tanizaki died in 1965.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543892005138,"sku":"9780679760221","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aad70856-40db-43cd-8cc7-d44d9be180ac.jpg?v=1731515963","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quicksand-9780679760221","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}