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  Snow Country (Vintage International)

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

  To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
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  The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

  From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. "He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the house warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort." With his promise to abide by the rules, Eguchi begins his life as a member of a... (more)
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  Beauty and Sadness

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Japanese
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  The Sound of the Mountain

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

  Text: English, Japanese (translation)
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  The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called "palm-of-the-hand" stories short enough to fit into ones palm. This collection reflects Kawabata's keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep melancholy that characterizes much of... (more)
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  The Master of Go (Vintage International)

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabaata

  Text: English, Japanese (translation)
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  Thousand Cranes

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

  With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father's mistress. A tale of desire, regret, and sensual nostalgia, every gesture has a meaning, and even the most fleeting touch or casual utterance has the power to illuminate entire... (more)
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  Palm-of-the-hand Stories

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. martin Holman, Yasunariu Kawabata

  Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist 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. In them we find loneliness, love, and the passage of time, demonstrating the range and complexity of a true master of short fiction.
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  First Snow on Fuji

  by Yasunari Kawabata, Michael Emmerich

  A beautiful translation of ten short stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata. "Kawabata lusted for purity; his characters live the contradiction." -Boston Globe The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and... (more)
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  The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  An Oriental classic retold by a Nobel Prize winner, with modern illustrations. An early Helan-period (794-1185) prose work about a supernatural being found by a bamboo cutter and brought up as his daughter. Text is presented in bilingual Japanese-English format alongside original, full-color kiri-e paper cut-out illustrations.
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  The Lake

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream--the... (more)
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  The Izu Dancer & Other Stories

  by Edward G. Seidensticker

  Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly , in 1958, The Izu Dancer , a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize, has been recognized as one of Japan's most distinguished writers. Also included in this collection are three stories by the prolific author Yasushi Inoue, the... (more)
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  The Old Capital

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  The 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, Shige. Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this... (more)