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(★)(Translated by Jean Oda Moy)(Titulo original : 敦煌, Early in the 20th century an incredible hoard of Buddhist sutras and other manuscripts was discovered by an itinerant monk in Tun-huang. Archaeologists recovered thousands of documents that had been concealed in the Thousand Buddha Caves for 900 years. The author...speculated on the reasons for the hiding of such treasures, and this fascinating and exotic novel is the result.／ ◆Yasushi Inoue was born in 1907 in Hokkaido, the son of an army medical officer. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1936, and joined the staff of Mainichi Newspapers as a reporter. In 1948 he published his first stories, ´The Hunting Gun´ and ´The Bullfight´, which won him the Akutagawa Prize, a much coveted literary award. He is the author of numerous works of historical fiction, the best known being ´Wind and Waves´, ´The Emperor Go-Shirakawa´, ´A Strange Tale of Russia´, and ´Tun-huang´. Among his works that have been translated into English are ´Journey through Samarkand´, ´Tun-huang´, and a book of short stories entitled ´Lou-lan´. In 1976 Inoue was decorated with the Cultural Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Japanese government.) |
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