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    The Rainbow

    Yasunari Kawabata, Haydn Trowell (trans.)

    Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country

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    Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Three stories of the erotic from Japan’s Nobel laureate, presenting a meditation on the twin themes of sexuality and death.

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    The Rainbow

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.

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    The Izu Dancer: And Other Stories

    Yasunari Kawabata,Yasushi Inoue

    The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata’s first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travellers. As the six travellers journey together, intimacy develops…

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    The Sound of the Mountain

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Translation of Yama no oto (romanized form).

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    Beauty and Sadness

    Yasunari Kawabata

    First published in the U.S. by A.A. Knopf, New York, 1975.

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    The Dancing Girl Of Izu And Other Stories

    Yasunari Kawabata

    This collection compiles 22 stories from one of the most influential Japanese writers, Yasunari Kawabata. In moving selections that sketch the outlines of the young author’s life of survivorship, Martin…

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    The Master of Go

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    First Snow on Fuji

    Yasunari Kawabata

    First published in 1958, this collection is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing, and with the lives of people…

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    Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in…

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    The Master of Go

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    Thousand Cranes

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. A brief, compact dramatic story…

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    The Old Capital

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Kawabata’s The Old Capital mentioned in the citation accompanying his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, is now available in a quality paperback edition of Martin Holman’s well-received translation.

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    A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country

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    A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata’s Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

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    A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata’s Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…

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    Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (trans.)

    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…

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    Dandelions

    Yasunari Kawabata

    A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word

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    Beauty and Sadness

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    Dandelions

    Yasunari Kawabata

    A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word

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    Thousand Cranes

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    The Sound of the Mountain

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love…

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    Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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…

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    The Female Character in Kawabata Yasunari

    Eric Cheruiyot Maritim

    In 1968, Kawabata Yasunari became the second Asian literary figure to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after the Indian, Rabindranath Tagore. He was among a crop of Japanese…

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    Les pissenlits

    Yasunari Kawabata,Jean Echenoz,Bruno Heitz

    En quittant l'hopital psychiatrique ou ils ont laisse Ineko, qui souffre de cecite partielle, une maladie mentale qui a necessite son internement, sa mere et son amant, Hisano, poursuivent dans…

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    Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Kawabata Yasunari

    Roy Starrs

    This study of Yasunari Kawabata, Japan’s first Nobel laureate for literature, aims both to reinforce the extraordinary phenomenon of scholarly neglect of one of Japan’s 20th-century literary giants and to…

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    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

    Yasunari Kawabata

    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.

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