Bøger af Atsushi Nakajima

"Ancient China is ... brought to life in these [short stories based on] folk tales, legends, and stories of historical figures that routinely rank alongside such Japanese literary classics as Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. When they first appeared in Japanese periodicals in 1942 and 1943, they sparked a potentially rich and long career for author Atsushi Nakajima, who tragically died of asthma complicated by severe pneumonia shortly thereafter"--Publisher marketing.

In this classic tale of tortured ambition and the eventual discovery of artistic enlightenment, Nakajima Atsushi brilliantly blends Confucian and Zen Buddhist thought in a well crafted, cinematic story about an archer on a quest to be the greatest of all time. This Japanese literary masterpiece is the first in "Maplopo's "Masters of Story" collection. A unique gathering of Japanese literature translated into English that highlights some of the most wonderfully diverse stories from Japan's most treasured writers. The next release in the "Masters of Story" collection is "Wind, Light, and the Twenty-Year Old Me" from Sakaguchi Ango. This is the first in the Maplopo Masters of Story collection.>Wish Fulfilled, by Dazai Osamu (now exclusively available in Daffodil)Wind, Light and the Twenty-Year-Old Me, by Sakaguchi AngoDaffodil, by Dazi Osamu