Yasunari Kawabata

• 1960
• / General Fiction
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This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. â€¢ â€œKawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and o...

• 1968
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A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead -- from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country."A stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter’s sensitivity to the ...

• Jun-1970
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its clos...

• Sep-1972
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire...

• Jun-1974
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• Nov-1989
• / Erotica
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• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction
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The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman a...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. "He employs devices from those long poetic traditions in order to create in modern prose his remarkable eff...

• Oct-2000
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The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory a...

• Feb-2006
• / Literary
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A young woman in historic Kyoto grapples with secrets from her past in this lyrical work of Japanese literature from a Nobel Prizeâ€"winning author. The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarde...

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction
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Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" written over the spa...

• Dec-2017
• / Literary
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A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last wordA fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.Beautifully spare and deeply stran...

• Dec-2017
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Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.   In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing e...

• Dec-2017
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Three erotically charged short stories from Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the tales in this collection, Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata probes the interplay of erotic fantasy and r...

• Jun-2023
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• Nov-2023
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Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling f...