This is a story of obsession. A man with grotesquely deformed feet dreams of perfection. His incurable longing drives him to follow nameless and unattainable women whose beauty can only be admired from a distance.

The lake (Fontana paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

Kawabata, Yasunari

World Literature

Fontana, Collins, in association with Kodansha International

House of the Sleeping Women

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Master of Go

Literary

Penguin Books / New American Library

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.” — The Times Literary Supplement (London)“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Snow Country (Modern Classics)

Classics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages — a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.“Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.”  — The Times Literary Supplement (London)“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review

Snow Country

Unknown

Penguin Group

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2011-1-1 Pages: 100 Publisher: Penguin Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of hisdead father He is shocked to find there the mistresss rival andsuccessor. Mrs Ota. and that the ceremony.. . has been awkwardlyarranged for him to meet his potential future bride But he is mostshocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs Ota -.. arelationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to allof them Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremonys poeticprecision with understated. lyrical style and beautiful prose.

Thousand Cranes (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Classics

Beauty and Sadness. Yasunari Kawabata Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker

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.

Palm of the Hand Stories (Picador Books)

Contemporary

NORTH POINT PRESS

House of Sleepng Beautis

Ballantine Books

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