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| | 1. |  | The Sound of the Mountain
from Vintage
Price: $7.99
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The Sound of the Mountain is a beautifully written book about very little. It portrays post-war Japan from the perspective of an older person, but it fails to make his experience of the war seem real. The book's greatest strength is the sense of the Japanese culture and its sensitivity to nature... more info
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| | 2. |  | Snow Country
from Vintage
Price: $7.49
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Kawabata's Snow Country is a small masterpiece, a love story that is as subtle as it is intense. It takes place in a remote hot springs in western Japan and centers around a romance between the morose Shimamura and the world-weary Komako. This takes place over a few visits during several months, and... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Old Capital
from Counterpoint
Price: $9.14
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The Old Capital is a beautifully written book. The sentences as translated are elegant in their simplicity and the book makes clear the conflict between old and new Japan. I found the author to be exceedingly gentle and delicate in the manner in which the characters are portrayed and somehow even in... more info
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| | 4. |  | Beauty and Sadness
from Vintage
Price: $7.69
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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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| | 5. |  | The Lake
from Kodansha International
Price: $7.42
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According to Donald Keene, The Lake (Mizuumi), and The House of Sleeping Beauties, represent Kawabata Yasunari at his most mature. It is not as well known as Snow Country but it is revelant today. Especially with the news showing countless stories of young girls being abducted by creepy looking... more info
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| | 6. |  | Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $4.94
Customer Review:
nobel prizes are only standard for such a writer as Kawabata. and as too many before and after his, a tragic artist's life ends in a controversial suicide. great reading for quiet evenings alone or on a subway train home.
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| | 7. |  | Thousand Cranes
from Vintage
Price: $4.90
Customer Review:
3.5 stars
I found Thousand Cranes interesting, but a little hard to follow. Two of Kikuji Mitani's father's mistresses insert themselves into Kikuji's life. He falls for one of them, and later her daughter. A tea ceremony is central to the story, but it's meaning is a little lost on this... more info
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| | 10. |  | First Snow on Fuji
from Counterpoint
Price: $3.08
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Having read and loved all of Kawabata's long stories and none of his short ones, I approached this book with considerable trepidation. There are some authors like Camus who are equally good in both forms and some others (to remain nameless) who I find are good in one style, but not the other.more info
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