Yasunari Kawabata
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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.
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...
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...
5) Dandelions
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1393
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions--exploring love and madness--is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Hospital, which she has entered for treatment of a condition that might be called "seizures of body blindness." Although her vision as a whole is...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology celebrating the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Stories by writers already well known to English-language readers are included-like Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata, and Yoshimoto-as well as many surprising new finds. --From publisher description.