Yasunari Kawabata
House Of Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories
$26.95 – Paperback book / Kodansha Internat.
From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb
stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality
in a loner's mind.
He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the house
warned o... Buy or find out more →
Snow Country
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'A work of beauty and strangeness . . . distinguished and moving' New York Herald Tribune
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Thousand Cranes
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Thousand Cranes has the qualities of the best Japanese writing: a stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter's sensitivity to the visible world' Atlantic
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress... Buy or find out more →
Beauty And Sadness
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'One is repeatedly moved by the delicacy of the imagery and the understated precision' New Statesman
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young... Buy or find out more →
Beauty And Sadness
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
"This is the final novel by one of Japan's foremost writers who died by his own hand without explanation in April 1972. The theme of this work blends two of his previous writings into narrative form—Kawa-bata's acceptanc... Buy or find out more →
Old Capital
$21.95 – Paperback book / Shoemaker & Hoard
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 Kawab... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Cranes
$14.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress’s rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his ... Buy or find out more →
Snow Country
$26.95 – Paperback book / Tuttle Publishing
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... Buy or find out more →
The Sound Of The Mountain
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata's is the closest to poetry' New York Times Book Review
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble... Buy or find out more →