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Title: He can tell a terrifying story, but here he is introducing us to a culture that he truly loves.
Review: Lafcadio Hearn wrote for people who weren't going anywhere. In the late nineteenth century only the wealthiest, or most desperate people traveled far from their place of birth. For everyone else, Lafcadio Hearn wrote beautifully descriptive prose describing people, flora and fauna of exotic places. In this collection, Hearn takes the dry translations of missionaries, and scholarly writing about China, and transforms the original documents into six exotic and very beautiful fairy tales. Hearn calls them ghost stories, but they have far more in common with Arthur Rackham than with M.R. James.The language in these stories is vivid, almost baroque, with wonderful images of shifting, delicate colors and exotic locations.People who love this short book, will probably love his book about his experiences in the Caribbean, as well as his wonderful stories from Japan.
