The maids

谷崎潤一郎

Original title: Daidokoro taiheiki

Translated by Michael P. Cronin earliest edition we have, 2017 New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017 176 pages

"The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work -- before, during, and after WWII -- in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife Sanko, and her younger sister. Though quite well-to-do, Raikichi has a small h...

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Michael P. Cronin 1 printing we hold · 2017 · New Directions Publishing Corporation

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Maids edition · 2019 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 176 pages · 9780811228749
The maids edition · 2017 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 176 pages · 9780811224925

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