{"product_id":"genji-monogatari-paperback","title":"Genji Monogatari: A Classic Japanese Court Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLady Murasaki Shikibu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSuematsu Kencho\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenji Monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e, better known in English as \u003cem\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the supreme classics of world literature, presented here in Kencho Suematsu's English translation.\u003c\/strong\u003e Written in eleventh-century Japan, the work follows the life, loves, ambitions, griefs, and political entanglements of Hikaru Genji, the shining son of an emperor whose beauty, charm, rank, and desire draw him through the refined but dangerous world of the Heian court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is famous not merely for its age, but for its extraordinary subtlety. Courtship unfolds through poetry, gesture, rank, seasonal feeling, secrecy, and suggestion. Behind the elegance lie jealousy, loneliness, rivalry, exile, religious longing, death, and the fragile impermanence of human attachment. Lady Murasaki gives the court world a depth of emotional and social observation that still feels astonishingly modern: people are shaped by desire, memory, status, etiquette, and the consequences of choices they only partly understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in Japanese literature, world classics, courtly romance, women writers, psychological fiction, and the history of the novel will find \u003cem\u003eGenji Monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e essential. It is a landmark of Heian culture, a masterpiece of intimate observation, and a book that helped define what long-form fiction could become centuries before the European novel reached maturity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45509644943499,"sku":"9781617200236","price":37.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/OuguQ7K-i29781617200236.webp?v=1783300871","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/genji-monogatari-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}