{"product_id":"9780977857609","title":"Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. \"What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?\" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and \"useful melancholy\" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: \"An Evening Conversation,\" \"An Enlightened Husband,\" and \"Winter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020758401264,"sku":"9780977857609","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780977857609_p0.jpg?v=1763879253","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780977857609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}