{"product_id":"9781805332220","title":"The Siren's Lament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A nave 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, translated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Jun'ichiro \/ Tanizaki","offer_id":55721557492085,"sku":"9781805332220","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781805332220_e8864168-a828-4b8a-9a9e-5b1a3e554e58.jpg?v=1763817262","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781805332220","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}