num_pages: 255
description: Ryunosuke Akutagawa blends a sense of sad inevitability with subtle irony. Reflective and often humorous, these tales reveal an enormous amount about Japanese culture, while the inner struggles of the characters always strike the universal.
language: English
title: Mandarins: Stories
titlecomplete: Mandarins: Stories
genres: Classics, Asian Literature, Collections, Japan, Short Stories, Asia, Japanese Literature, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 490
publisher: Archipelago Books