The Makioka Sisters Anders Roslund She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon

She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful

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and undoing the stigmatization of students who do not conform

Faith will do anything for her boss

The Makioka Sisters Anders Roslund She knows—everyone knows—that the DragonIn 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