During the period between the World Wars, the narrator describes his marriage to Naomi, a young cafe hostess who is infatuated with Western fashion
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Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged cafe waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager to whisk young Naomi away from the seamy underbelly of post--World War I Tokyo and to mold her into his ideal wife. But when the two come together to indulge their shared passion for Western culture, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from being the naive girl of his fantasies, and his passion descends into a comically helpless masochism.
A literary masterpiece that helped to establish Junichiro Tanizaki as Japan's greatest novelist, Naomi" is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and torment, and a brilliant evocation of a nation's cultural confusion.
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"Hilarious.... Gleeful.... [A] shrewd commentary on Japan's infatuation with the West."–The New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherNorth Point Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0865474575
- ISBN 13 9780865474574
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages237
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