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(0)Yasunari Kawabata
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Japanese literature collection contains four translated stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers.
The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travelers. As the six travelers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer is...
The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travelers. As the six travelers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer is...
2) Snow Country
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
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. • “Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” —The New York Times Book Review
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a...
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a...
3) Kyoto
Author
Publisher
D. Quixote
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Portuguese
Description
Kyoto é uma das mais belas obras de Yasunari Kawabata, autor galardoado com o Prémio Nobel de Literatura em 1968. Considerado a sua obra-prima, este romance mergulha profundamente no universo da psicologia feminina. O tema do amor impossível, já tratado noutros romances de Kawabata, aflora novamente nesta obra de uma tão delicada e subtil narrativa. «Os romances de Kawabata estão entre as obras mais comoventes e originais do nosso tempo.»...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has...
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman in historic Kyoto grapples with secrets from her past in this lyrical work of Japanese literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author.
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story...
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story...