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The Makioka Sisters Anders Roslund and undoing the stigmatization ofIn 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