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Arts & Entertainment

Telling Tales An Adult Short Story Program

Join the library for this five-part series of pleasurable selected short stories for adults.

The selected story for August is The Tattooer by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular.  In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider on the body of a beautiful young woman. Afterwards, the woman's beauty takes on demonic, and compelling powers.

This month, no website with full text can be provided; you may review a copy of the story at the Reference Desk.
 

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