QuicksandVintage Classics978-00-9948-561-297800994856122025-06-12English (United Kingdom)192Softcover
Quicksand
- Genres
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general · Classic fiction: literary and general · Thriller / suspense fiction · Fiction in translation
- 2010
- first published in English
- Japanese
- original language
- 3
- edition in English
- 192
- pages
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit - and a Japanese queer classic. Sonoko must tell her story. Listen and decide for yourself. Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair but as Sonoko’s infatuation with Mitsuko deepens, she finds herself sinking ever-further into a quicksand of sex, humiliation and deceit. ‘A riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Classic Tanizaki…exuberant storytelling within a multi-layered narrative of sexual obsession’ Japan Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KRISTEN ROUPENIAN

