The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas post exacting bureaucrat

exacting bureaucrat

a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves

when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving

and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole

The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas post exacting bureaucratAuthor Contributor(s): Tanizaki, Junichiro Publisher: Vintage Date: 6 24 1995 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country's deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here, in two eerie and beautiful novellas, he displays this skill at its most elegant and