The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot Fiction_Gift_Guide Comprehensively and for the first

Comprehensively and for the first time

award-winning

and then the arrival of her greatest joys-falling in love

This marriage symbolizes the shifting social order and the decline of the aristocracy

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The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot Fiction_Gift_Guide Comprehensively and for the firstFrom a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphans search for his mothers past through the