The Makioka Sisters Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2016) University of Washington

University of Washington

Featured in both The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices

untold story of the great explorer

This Japanese vinyl edition features a printed inner sleeve with English lyrics

com and the life she knew begins to unravel

The Makioka Sisters Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2016) University of WashingtonIn 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