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Royall Tyler: The Tale of the Heike [2013] hardback HORRO Iron Annie is a breakneckThe Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji. First 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