Mandarins: Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
255 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0977857603
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Language: English
Publish: May 1, 2007
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa blends a sense of sad inevitability with subtle irony. Reflective and often humorous, these tales reveal an enormous amount about Japanese culture, while the inner struggles of the characters always strike the universal.