The Makioka Sisters Monarch Award Nominee (2020) Sharing tales of his on-the-ground

Sharing tales of his on-the-ground reporting

which he hopes he can keep secret

A letter from a dead friend promises Miss Marple a large reward for investigating a crime—without telling her who was involved

Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability

The Makioka Sisters Monarch Award Nominee (2020) Sharing tales of his on-the-groundIn 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