The Key
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
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A seductive portrait of marriage and sexual passion.
This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.
A husband and wife each write in their diary, never knowing if it is being read by the other.
Ikuko and her husband are deeply in love but have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other’s desires. When Ikuko finds the key to her husband’s diary she ignores it, but she does begin to keep a diary of her own. Both parties start to set down in writing the evolution of their sex life and their deepest, most private desires. Who is reading whose diary? Who knows what? So begins an extended erotic game of lust, jealousy and manipulation.
‘A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover’ The Times
'Sensational and serious' New York Times
At once sensational and serious – a middle-aged man’s last bout of sexual passion * New York Times *
The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century
Tanizaki tells the delicate and, in the end, frightening story with great skill-this is not a book you will soon forget * Boston Herald *
That this is a work of rare art can never be in doubt * New Statesman *
A story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover * The Times *
ISBN: 9780099289999
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 11mm
Weight: 119g
160 pages