Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country , A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go . Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country , A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go . Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972. See less
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Yasunari Kawabata book reviews
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Beauty and Sadness
Zilch to Ugly and Happiness
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 ... Read More
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Snow country
Snow Country by Kawabata
by JoeS, Jun 4, 2009
Terrific book.
Story is ?old fashioned? to Western eyes, in that it is a love story about a (then)?modern? man and a geisha. My background in Asian studies doesn?t go deeply enough to know if ... Read More
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Palm-of-the-hand stories
Essences
by rejoyce, Aug 2, 2007
What is most impressive about this collection of short short stories written over a 50-year span by Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1968 for novels like ... Read More
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