Diary of a Mad Old Man

"Wonderful" -- Hanif Kureshi Independent "His work is unclassifiable: by turns outre and dignified, passionate in its embrace of all things Western and eloquent in its memorializing of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, lightly comic, lyrically evocative and savagely cruel. In a land reputedly inhospitable to the individualist, it demands attention and has earned Tanizaki an undisputed place in the pantheon of 20th-century Japanese literature." New York Times "An artistic masterpiece" Irish Times "A writer of wicked subtlety and grace" Sunday Times