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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Yasunari KawabataNobel Prize winner 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 span of his career.
The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata“The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust—all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel ...
The Master of Go
Yasunari KawabataLuminous in its detail, both suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is an elegy for an entire society, written with the poetic economy and psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Snow Country
Yasunari KawabataSnow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
First Snow on Fuji
Yasunari KawabataA collection of stories explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Yasunari KawabataA new translation of the only work not currently available in English by a Nobel-Prize winning author and the best known Japanese writer outside of Japan.
Beauty and Sadness
Yasunari KawabataThis is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.
Thousand Cranes
Yasunari KawabataOta - a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony's poetic precision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose.
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature
PreviewHeather BowenStruyk argues that through this turn Kawabata's protagonist constructs a fantasy space that elides the 'probable economic and gender subordination suffered' by the women represented (1999: 148). Fuminobu Murakami (2010: ...
The devil's blind spot: tales from the new century
Alexander KlugeIn just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of compression as Kafka or Kawabata. Arranged in five chapters, the dozens of stories of The Devil's Blind Spot are condensed, like novels in pill form.
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