Three Japanese Short Stories: Behind the Prison;: Closet LLB; General Kim

✍ Scribed by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke; Koji, Uno; Kafu, Nagai;

• Book ID: 110495253
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 465 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780241339756

✦ Synopsis

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'

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.

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