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| | 2. |  | Snow Country
from Vintage
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
A great book, Snow Country and Beauty and Sadness started my obsession with Yasunari Kawabata.
I can't recommend it to everyone - one friend I pointed it out to called it immensely boring. It is definitely light on action. Kawabata's aesthetics drive this book. Read it as a poem
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| | 3. |  | Thousand Cranes
from Vintage
Price: $10.36
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Many consider _Snow Country_ to be Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, and while I am inclined to agree with this judgment, it would be a mistake to overlook _Thousand Cranes_, an amazing study of relationships by the modern Japanese novelist.
Kawabata's writing is often compared to the haiku form... more info
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| | 5. |  | Beauty and Sadness
from Vintage
Price: $11.16
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"Beauty and Sadness" by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata and translated by Howard Hibbett is a slightly disappointing book after having just read "Snow Country" by the same writer, but a different translator.
I mention the translator because a non-Japanese speaker is totally dependent on the... more info
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| | 9. |  | The Master of Go
from Vintage
Price: $11.16
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This novel by Nobelist Yasunari Kawabata is a mixture of real-world events and fiction: it is a description of a real-world Go match, fought in 1938 between Honinbo Shusai and Minoru Kitani. Kawabata was present at the game, reporting it to the newspaper that had organized the match. In this book,... more info
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| | 10. | [no image] | The Old Capital
from North Point Press
Customer Review:
The aesthetic distance of Kawabata's "Snow Country" is revisted here, in "The Old Capital". The mysterious inner world of twins torn asunder before they knew it-then, by chance reunited is the central story line of this strangely quiet, beautiful book. Kyoto is the "Old Capital" and retains the... more info
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