Yasushi Inoue's chronicle of history

Tun-huang by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda May, preface by Damion Searls (New York Review Books, 2010) Damion Searls, in his preface to Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel Tun-huang, grouped the novelist's fiction into four genres: historical fiction, love stories, postwar sociopolitical fiction, and autobiographical writings. Of these, I've sampled only two. Chronicle