{"product_id":"tale-of-genji-1","title":"The Tale of Genji","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust. Chief of these is \"the shining Genji,\" the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him. This edition, recognized as the finest version in English, contains a dozen chapters from early in the book, carefully chosen by the translator, Edward G. Seidensticker, with an introduction explaining the selection. It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts from a seventeenth-century edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52225609761050,"sku":"N9780679729532","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/9462\/2234\/files\/9780679729532.jpg?v=1778892921","url":"https:\/\/honnomoribooks.com\/products\/tale-of-genji-1","provider":"Honnomori Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}