Yasunari Kawabata
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories, 1969
Tokyo: Kodansha International
Inscribed in English and Japanese by the author to the photographer Yousuf Karsh.
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Octavo. 149pp. The book for which Kawabata, a scanty signatory, won the Nobel Prize in 1968, here translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Kawabata's affection for traditional Japanese motifs and his...
Octavo. 149pp. The book for which Kawabata, a scanty signatory, won the Nobel Prize in 1968, here translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Kawabata's affection for traditional Japanese motifs and his capacity for evocative, experimental language vaulted him into the vanguard of 20th-century Japanese literature. Bound in bright red cloth over boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper.
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