A String of Flowers, Untied--: Love Poems from the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

A String of Flowers, Untied--: Love Poems from the Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu with Murasaki Shikibu (Translator), Jane Reichhold (Translator)

224 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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Murasaki Shikibu is well known as the author of the brilliant Tale of Genji, the romance that has given her distinction as the world's first novelist. Yet in eleventh-century Japan, the highest form of literary effort was not the narrative, but ra...

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