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Strange light afar: tales of the supernatural from old Japan

โœ Scribed by Rui Umezawa

Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd;Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
693 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1554987253

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โœฆ Synopsis

A bitterly jealous brother, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter -- the motives underlying these traditional Japanese folktale characters are explored with haunting results.

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