The Makioka Sisters Monarch Award Nominee (2020) Sharing tales of his on-the-ground

Sharing tales of his on-the-ground reporting

which he hopes he can keep secret

social histories

Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability

and an honest and true one

The Makioka Sisters Monarch Award Nominee (2020) Sharing tales of his on-the-groundIn Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century, a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family and an entire society sliding into the abyss of modernity. Tsuruko, the eldest sister, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name