{"product_id":"2026200015967-secondhand-the-heike-story","title":"The Heiké Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew epics in world literature can rival the sweeping grandeur of The Heiké Story, Eiji Yoshikawa's magnificent retelling of twelfth-century Japan's most dramatic age — the era of the Genpei War, when the rival Taira (Heike) and Minamoto (Genji) clans tore the nation apart in a struggle for supreme power. Translated from the Japanese by Fuki Wooyenara Uramatsu, the novel chronicles the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of the Taira clan through a vast cast of samurai warriors, court nobles, and common people, all swept up in the tide of history, with the charismatic Kiyomori at its heart — a man of iron ambition and thunderous contradictions who reshapes a nation in his own image.\n\nYoshikawa, Japan's most celebrated popular novelist, writes with the narrative propulsion of a master storyteller, weaving historical fact with vivid human drama to produce a work that stands as both a national saga and a universal meditation on power, loyalty, and the inexorable passage of time. His prose — rendered with elegance and precision in this English translation — captures the austere beauty of the Heian court alongside the brutal poetry of the battlefield. A towering achievement that leaves the reader questioning whether Kiyomori's legacy was one of greatness or ruin — and whether, in the end, there is any difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203262226651,"sku":"2026200015967-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b9d05309-edd5-4a95-bec9-fd59d77878a5.png?v=1788146746","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015967-secondhand-the-heike-story","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}