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Mr Kawabata's last novel paces leisurely and with a delicacy studied, perhaps, to American bull-in-the-china shop sensibilities; I suspect, though, that this is a Japanese mind speaking through the nuanced veil of language. Every conversation point is mulled over and smoothed for precision.
I suggest scanning the novel on first read-through, then reading again for comprehension and interpretation.
Connotation leads the way to conceptualization. My heart derailed at the conclusion, and I had to plow through pages back to see where I had gone astray. Brain was shunted to extract meaning.