{"product_id":"9781805332220-retail-the-sirens-lament-essential-stories","title":"The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories","description":"The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naive servant elopes with his master's daughter, only to be plunged headlong into a world of murder and corruption. Exhausted by a lifestyle of never-ending debauchery, a young prince finds himself obsessed with a sorrowful, beguiling mermaid. These three stories, in a gorgeous new translation by Bryan Karetnyk, distil the essence of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's shorter fiction: the commingling of Japanese and Chinese mythologies, the dark side of desire and the paper-thin line between the sublime and the depraved.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49204814938331,"sku":"9781805332220-RETAIL","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cad515c5-6f7d-4489-908b-b1043646dd4d.jpg?v=1788187230","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781805332220-retail-the-sirens-lament-essential-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}