Some Prefer Nettles

✍ Tanizaki, Junichiro 📂 Fiction 📅 1955 🏛 Tuttle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 842 KB

The conflict between traditional and modern Japanese culture is at the heart of this novel. Kaname is a smug, modern man living in a modern marriage. He gamely allows his wife to become the lover of another man, an act that does not cure the profound sadness at the heart of their relationship. So Ka

Some Prefer Nettles

✍ Tanizaki, Junichiro 📂 Fiction 🏛 Perseus Books Group 🌐 English ⚖ 633 KB

Some Prefer Nettles

✍ Junichiro Tanizaki 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House;Tuttle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 159 KB 👁 1 views

The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach

Some Prefer Nettles

✍ Tanizaki, Junichiro 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2012 🏛 Tuttle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 332 KB 👁 1 views

Some Prefer Nettles

✍ Junichiro Tanizaki 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Tuttle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 395 KB 👁 1 views

The conflict between traditional and modern Japanese culture is at the heart of this novel. Kaname is a smug, modern man living in a modern marriage. He gamely allows his wife to become the lover of another man, an act that does not cure the profound sadness at the heart of their relationship. So Ka

Nettles

✍ Adam Scovell 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🏛 Influx Press 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

It is the first day of term at a secondary school on Merseyside, 2001. The Towers are soon to fall. A boy cowers in an alleyway, surrounded by a group clad in black. They whip his bare legs with nettles. This is only the start. As term unfolds, their bullying campaign intensifies. Soon the boy fi