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Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has n ...Show more
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating discovery,Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972. Beautifully spare and deeply strange,Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young man w ...Show more
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions-exploring love and madness-is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Ho ...Show more
Izu Dancer And Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
As six Izu travellers journey together, intimacy develops and friendship overcomes class differences. Capturing the shy eroticism of adolescence, The Izu Dancer paints a charming picture of the times.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by J. Martin (TRN) Lane (TRN); Holman Yasunari; Dunlop Kawabata
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...Show more
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G Seidensticker (translator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and invinci ...Show more
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Ky ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
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