27m
In a Grove
Author:
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (5)
Reader: Hayk Petrosyan (258)
Category:
Prose (630)
Short story (666)
Japanese literature (6)
Translator:
Norayr Adalyan (4)
Age Recommendation: 13+
“In a Grove” is a story by a Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. He is regarded as the “Father of the Japanese short story”. It presents three varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto.