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Beauty and Sadness
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, …
Snow Country
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie …
The Sound of the Mountain
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have …
Thousand Cranes
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and …
The Rainbow
‘In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan’ Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years …
Dandelions
The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataIneko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The …
The Old Capital
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and …
Master of Go
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged …
The Sound of the Mountain
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age -- the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along …
Snow Country
A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary masterShimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of …
The Dancing Girl Of Izu And Other Stories
Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. "He employs devices from those long …
Med regnbågen som sällskap
Med regnbågen som sällskap av Yasunari Kawabata i svensk översättning från japanska av Lars VargöHandlingen utspelar sig strax efter Andra Världskriget kriget och tar upp känsliga …