Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.

Naomi

Literature & Fiction

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Contemporary

Pavanne Pan Books

Zahra, a young Lebanese woman haunted by memories of abuse by  her parents, enters into a loveless marriage in West Africa and then  returns to a war-torn Beirut. By the author of Women of Sand and  Myrrh.

The Story Of Zahra

Hanan, Al-Shaykh

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Naomi

The Story Of Zahra