Overview :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 gei... Read More
Overview :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 mountai... Read More
Overview :A Study Guide for Yasunari Kawabata's "Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This c... Read More
Overview :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 h... Read More
Overview :The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a ... Read More
Overview :Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-wi... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Dans quel monde entrait le vieil Eguchi lorsqu'il franchit le seuil des Belles Endormies ? Ce roman, publi en 1961, d crit la qu te des vie... Read More
Overview :Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set ... Read More
Overview :Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-wi... Read More
Overview :Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds th... Read More
Overview :The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literatu... Read More
Overview :The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like ... Read More