# Quicksand

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- Book: [Quicksand](https://www.bookquiver.com/junichiro-tanizaki/quicksand) ([Quicksand.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/junichiro-tanizaki/quicksand.md))
- Authors: [Jun'ichirō Tanizaki](https://www.bookquiver.com/junichiro-tanizaki)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9948-561-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2025-06-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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