The Tale of the Heike - Royall Tyler Though repelled by their squalor

Though repelled by their squalor and brutality

is working in an amusement arcade

which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne

The Tale of the Heike - Royall Tyler Though repelled by their squalorFirst assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century, The Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad a grand scale depiction of the wars between the Heike and Genji clans. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, it is also a work filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty. Original Language: Japanese