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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Vitae)
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Vitae) Hardcover - 2023

by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

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  • Title Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Vitae)
  • Author Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2023-11-14
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ01X9LW_ns
  • ISBN 9780143137887 / 0143137883
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Akutagawa, Ryaunosuke
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023022262
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) was a short story writer, poet, and essayist, as well as one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with a degree in English literature and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1919. His mother experienced a mental health break just months after his birth, and Akutagawa was plagued by a fear of inherited insanity all his life. He ended his own life at the age of 35.

Jay Rubin (translator) has translated several of Haruki Murakami's works into English and is the author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and the editor of The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. He has been a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University and the University of Washington.

Haruki Murakami (introduction) is one of Japan's most admired and widely read novelists, whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His more than twenty books include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Men Without Women, and Killing Commendatore. Among his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include the Nobel Prize winners J. M. Coetzee and V. S. Naipaul. Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami now lives near Tokyo.