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Scenes from the World's first novel. A beautiful illustrated bilingual version of a Japanese classic featuring the cut-out (kire-e) artwork of Masayuki Miyata, The Tale of Genji combines Miyata's captivating paper cut-outs with a modern retelling of a vintage story. This well-known tale of the amorous adventures of Prince Genji is widely considered world literature's first novel, and with its precise and poetic prose, it is also considered one of its finest.
14 x 22cm
Material: Paperback, 240 pages with colour illustrations.
Translated by H Mack Horton. ISBN: 9784770027726
