Three Japanese Short Stories

Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!''br>br>Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai''s Behind the Prison, Uno''s Closet LLB and Akutagawa''s deeply macabre General Kim.br>br>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.>

Product details

• Authors: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Nagai Akutagawa, Kafu Nagai, Chiyo Uno, Uno Chiyo
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241339749
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33974-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 161 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary