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Realm of the Dead

Uchida Hyakken author Rachel DiNitto translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:18th May '06

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Realm of the Dead describes the lands of both the living and the dead. In this collection of short stories, they are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned. Considered one of the foremost innovators of Japanese modernism, Hyakken incorporates a distinctly non-Western set of myths and folklore to evoke a society--and a people--on the brink of enormous change.

masterful fiction' -Todd Shimoda, Asian Review of Books

ISBN: 9781564784476

Dimensions: 233mm x 166mm x 22mm

Weight: 471g

229 pages