In Praise Of Shadows Penguin Random House South Africa and a questioning teenage girl'

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she has to scrape together rent money by selling illegal herbal cures

a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression

including personal testimony from soldiers

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In Praise Of Shadows Penguin Random House South Africa and a questioning teenage girl'Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The result is a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age.