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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

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Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession.

A talented and spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depths of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being lowered towards him. When a body is found in an isolated bamboo grove, a kaleidoscopic account of violence and desire begins to unfold.

Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, this mesmerizing collection by an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese Literature.


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crime / fiction / international / japanese / Michael Emmerich / Ryonosuke Akutagawa / translation /