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The Makioka Sisters
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The Makioka Sisters is essentially 500 pages of an increasingly desparate attempt to find someone to marry the third sister of a family in financial decline, while trying to stop the fourth sister going off the rails and ruining her chances.

It is memorable for its excruciating dinner parties, obsession with minor ailments and vitamin B injections and possibly the most bizarre ending sentence I have ever come across. I was expecting something a lot more heavy-going and was pleasantly suprised by
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