[Naomi] [by: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki]

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Naomi Junichiro Tanizaki's "Naomi "is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World Wa... Full description