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The key

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ; translated by Howard Hibbett

(Vintage classics)

Vintage, 2004, c1960

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This translation originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1961

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'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires...until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul...

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  • NCID
    BB03650229
  • ISBN
    • 0099466872
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    jpn
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    160 p
  • Size
    18cm
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