{"product_id":"rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa-author","title":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories  by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Author),","description":"\u003carticle class=\"lzd-article\" style=\"white-space: break-spaces;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.7; text-align: left; text-indent: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFor fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eShōgun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e: The best stories by the father of the Japanese short story—including the two that inspired Kurosawa's classic samurai film about the subjectivity of truth—featuring\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ean introduction by Haruki Murakami\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. \"Rashömon\"and \"In a Bamboo Grove\" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as \"The Nose,\" \"O-Gin\" and \"Loyalty\" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as \"Death Register,\" \"The Life of a Stupid Man,\" and \"Spinning Gears,\" Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e","brand":"Bookbeen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51998609670453,"sku":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories-2","price":685.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":51998609637685,"sku":"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories-1","price":1285.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/1731\/5125\/files\/BOOKBEEN-2025-11-27T150153.548.png?v=1764237725","url":"https:\/\/bookbeen.com\/products\/rashomon-and-seventeen-other-stories-by-ryunosuke-akutagawa-author","provider":"Bookbeen","version":"1.0","type":"link"}