by Yasunari Kawabata
The windows were still screened from the summer. A moth so still that it might have been glued there clung to one of the screens. Its feelers stood out like delicate wool, the color of cedar bark, and its wings, the length of a woman’s finger, were a pale, almost diaphanous green. The ranges of moun...
I read Kawabata's 'The Master of Go' and rather enjoyed it. This short novel I admired rather than enjoyed. In theory, I should have loved it as it contained all the right ingredients - doomed love story, poetic prose, anti-heroic characters, evocative setting, etc. - but I found it took me a long t...
What an intriguing read! I read this for the GoodReads International Reads book club I am a part of and I am quite glad this was the book that was chosen for the month of December (yeah, I know I am late with this review shhhhhh!). I found this book to be very thought-provoking and beautifull...
Rec'd by my old book club. Seidensticker is the right translation. Sounds cool.
one of the books Kawabata was cited for for the Nobel Prize, and justifiably so. critical opinion will undoubtedly rage unresolved for centuries whether this or Beauty and Sadness (Utsukushiimito kanashimi??) is the superior work, but for the first-time Kawabata reader, clearly Yukiguni is the more ...
I haven't a clue what to make of this book.
Beautiful, sad, poignant, all these can be said of Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country. It almost felt that I was viewing this story through a slightly steamed window as I read it. I found myself feeling both an eavesdropper and a voyeur. Sometimes catching glimpses and then other times full meetings b...
magnficient... little gem
The Book Report: Married, bored (but I repeat myself) aesthete, philanderer, and flâneur Shimamura, an aficionado of Western ballet (although he's never seen one), takes a solo trip into Japan's Snow Country. While there in the wildest of boondocks Japan possesses, he meets Komako, probably the worl...
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