num_pages: 224
description: Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be entranced by Tanizaki’s seminal novel.  At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is “beautifully and mysteriously contrived.”— Newsday
language: English
title: Quicksand
titlecomplete: Quicksand
characters: Sonoko Kakiuchi
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Japanese Literature, LGBT, Novels, Queer, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3365
places: Japan, Osaka
publisher: Vintage