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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
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.
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
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
22.95 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
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G Seidensticker (translator)
24.99 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 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
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust--all the elements of Kawabata's fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N-ō drama." --"Saturday R ...Show more
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with ...Show more
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