A Family's Rise and Fall in Japan

12th Century Japan, gang land warring, with water and wind gods, and ghosts, Genpei by Kara Dalkey is a historical story of raise of one family to emperiors good graces and it's subquent fall, however in this versions of the history Dalkey includes all the Japanese myth of gods as reality. It is chalked full of the emotions of shame, disgrace, ambition, and greed. This book interested me but I found it somewhat slow and sometimes boring (sometimes). On the whole it was a good book and interesting - a unique insight to a culture very different from my own.

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