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In a Grove: and Other Stories
Paperback
Series: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Collection, Book 8
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A murdered samurai lies in a grove, but every testimony rearranges the truth. In a Grove turns witness statements, confession, and a dead man's voice into one of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's most unsettling studies of desire, shame, violence, and self-deception.
In a Grove and Other Stories brings together six works: In a Grove, The Martyr, The Christ of Nanking, O-Gin, Suspicion, and Two Letters. The volume moves from a fractured crime in medieval Kyoto to Christian Nagasaki, modern Nanking, hidden faith, earthquake guilt, and a lettered descent into doubles and paranoia.
Akutagawa stands among the defining masters of modern Japanese short fiction. His art joins classical sources, psychological precision, irony, historical imagination, and a severe awareness of how human beings reshape memory to survive what they have done.
This collection offers a concentrated reading of Akutagawa at his most various: lucid, strange, morally exacting, and formally daring, with stories that show why he remains one of Japan's most influential literary voices.
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