{"product_id":"rasha-mon-and-seventeen-other-stories","title":"Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Penguin Classics' most popular translations-now also in our elegant black spine dressRyÃ¼nosuke 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. \"RashÃ¶mon\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryunosuke Akutagawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213385986108,"sku":"9780140449709","price":2245.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780140449709_201_5cd72f57-d42a-406b-babc-e762fe535743.jpg?v=1776711216","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/rasha-mon-and-seventeen-other-stories","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}