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What distinguishes this wonderful new collection--the title story and two shorter pieces--is its lightheartedness, its comic realism. The 'man' in the title piece is a typical Tanizaki hero--spoiled, self-indulgent, and obstinately ineffectual--caught up in a war between his vindictive former wife and her willful young successor, both rivals of the fourth party in the title: Lily--seductive, elegant, and magnificently in control--a tortoiseshell cat.Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro is the author of 'A Cat, A Man and Two Women - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki' with ISBN 9780870117558 and ISBN 0870117556.
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