Download or read book A Cat, a Man, and Two Women written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and published by Kodansha America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes this wonderful new collection--the title story and two shorter pieces--is its lightheartedness, its comic realism. The 'man' in the title piece is a typical Tanizaki hero--spoiled, self-indulgent, and obstinately ineffectual--caught up in a war between his vindictive former wife and her willful young successor, both rivals of the fourth party in the title: Lily--seductive, elegant, and magnificently in control--a tortoiseshell cat.