Yasushi Inoue

The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows the consequences of a tragic love affair among well-to-do people in an exclusive suburb of the great commercial cities of Osaka and Kobe. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit …

Gengis-khan (1167-1227) – le « conquérant du monde », selon ses chroniqueurs – avait formé un empire démesuré allant de Pékin à la Volga. Inoue Yasushi raconte l’épopée de ces fils du « Loup bleu et de la Biche blanche », les chevauchées triomphantes, les butins fabuleux et les carnages qui entraînèrent les hordes …

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young …