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A Thousand Cranes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 13.95Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata?s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents? deaths, Kikuji encounters his father?s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate... more...
The Master of Go
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.95Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other?s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern... more...
The Sound of the Mountain
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.95?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 that rises to the incantatory fascination of a No drama.? ? Saturday Review Few novels have rendered the predicament... more...
The Old Capital
Counterpoint 2006; US$ 15.95The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded 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 of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife,... more...
Beauty and Sadness
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableThe 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 as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not... more...
The Sound of the Mountain
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableOgata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise,... more...
Thousand Cranes
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota - a relationship that will bring only... more...
Snow Country
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableShimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom... more...
The Izu Dancer and Other Stories
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95Four stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers. The Izu Dancer was the story that first introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. This story was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958. Stories by Inoue include, The Counterfeiter,” Obasute,” and The Full Moon.”... more...









