Author: Kawabata Yasunari
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The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Twenty-three stories by a Japanese writer. The subjects include beggars, Buddhist priests and love dramas. The story, Diary of My Sixteenth Year, is on the friendship of a boy and his grandfather.
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The Izu dancer
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The Izu dancer and other stories
The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The full moon by Yasushi Inoue
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The Scarlet gang of Asakusa
A new translation of the only work not currently available in English by a Nobel-Prize winning author and the best known Japanese writer outside of Japan.
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Snow country
With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako,…
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The master of go.
Symbolic novel reporting a match of the Japanese game of go.
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Thousand cranes
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The sound of the mountain.
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The lake.
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House of the sleeping beauties : and other stories