Translator: Seidensticker, Edward
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The Izu dancer and other stories
The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The full moon by Yasushi Inoue
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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.