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Author: Kawabata Yasunari

  • The Izu dancer and other stories

    The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The full moon by Yasushi Inoue

  • 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.

  • 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,…

  • The master of go.

    Symbolic novel reporting a match of the Japanese game of go.