num_pages: 192
description: 'In the land of the rising sun in the 1920s, Western dress, habits and morals were seen as both excitingly avant-garde and dangerously decadent. NAOMI, first published in Japan in 1924, is the story of a man's obsessive love for a girl 13 years younger than himself... Tanizaki describes the relationship with skill and delicacy, and gets his erotic effects by treading a line somewhere between the sensuous and the sensual'
language: English
title: Naomi
titlecomplete: Naomi
genres: Japan, 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Asia, Classics, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6934
places: Japan, Tokyo
publisher: Pavanne / Pan Books