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1	Snow country more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £7.17! \| first editions
2	Thousand cranes more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata Amid the serene and peaceful rituals of the traditional tea ceremony, a young man forms a new and mysterious relationship with the memory of his dead father as he becomes involved with his father's two mistresses. see all copies from £3.94! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
3	Beauty and sadness more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata The double nature of eros and love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowwhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality. see all copies from £4.09! new only from £9.61! \| first editions
4	The Sound of the Mountain more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata see all copies from £3.07! new only from £10.15! \| first editions
5	Palm-of-the-hand stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin HolmanWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata is perhaps best known in the United States for his deeply incisive, marvelously lyrical novel "Snow Country," But according to Kawabata himself, the essence of his art was to be found in a series of short stories-which he called "Palm ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.10! \| first editions
6	The master of go more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata see all copies from £2.78! new only from £9.61! \| first editions
7	House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. "He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the house warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort." With his ... see all copies from £1.62! new only from £7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) From one of Japan's most noted writers, 22 stories about surviving. see all copies from £5.12! new only from £8.95! \| first editions
9	The Old Capital more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) Kawabata's The Old Capital mentioned in the citation accompanying his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, is now available in a quality paperback edition of Martin Holman's well-received translation. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.71! \| first editions
10	Scarlet Gang of Asakusa more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Ō Ta Saburō (Illustrator), Alisa Freedman (Translator) A new translation of the only work not currently available in English by a Nobel-Prize winning author and the best known Japanese writer outside of Japan. see all copies from £7.94! new only from £16.90!
11 view cover	Lake more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £7.34! \| first editions
12	Beauty and Sadness more books like this by Vasunari Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator) The double nature of eros and love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowwhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £49.93! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Professor Donald Keene (Translator), Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator) Preface by Donald Keene Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) was probably written late in the ninth or early in the tenth century. Mention at the end of the tale that smoke still rose from Mount Fuji, a sign it was an active volcano, is an important clue to the date of composition, for we know that by 905 A.D. the mountain had ... see all copies from £16.30! new only from £18.54!
14	Snow country ; and, Thousand cranes more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata see all copies from £9.10! first editions
15 view cover	Izu Dancer and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue, Edward Seidensticker (Translator) Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958, The Izu Dancer, a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize, has been recognized as one of Japan's most distinguished writers. Also included in this ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
16 view cover	First Snow on Fuji more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata Eight stories and a play by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Yasunari Kawabata. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.97! \| first editions
17	The Old Capital: Yasunari Kawabata more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) Never before translated into English, this novel from Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kawabata tells the story of an adopted girl who accidentally meets her unknown twin sister. see all copies from £5.55! new only from £30.84! \| first editions
18	Sound of Mountain more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G Seidensticker (Translator) see all copies from £5.54!
19 view cover	Pais de Nieve by Yasunari Kawabata Shimamura regresa al Pais de nieve atraido por la belleza de la estacion y eltradicional estilo de vida. Pero vuelve especialmente por Komako, una jovenaprendiz de geisha que conocio en un viaje anterior. El es un hombre rico, demediana edad, que intenta escapar de un matrimonio sombrio y de su vida enTokio. Ella, una bellisima mujer vulnerable a ... see all copies from £16.08! new only from £18.73!
20 view cover	Lo Bello y Lo Triste more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata Impulsado por la nostalgia, Oki Toshio decide viajar a Kyoto para oir sonar las campanas del templo en el Ano Nuevo. Pero, ademas, quiere ver a Otoko, su antigua amante, ahora pintora. Todavia hermosa, Otoko vive con su protegida Keiko, una joven amoral, sensual y apasionada de apenas veinte anos. Keiko desencadenara este cruel drama de amor, ... see all copies from £20.12! new only from £20.13!
21	Tin House: the Secret Life of the Lonely Doll (Volume 1, Number 2) [Paperback... by David Leavitt; Victor D. Lavalle; Mark Poirier; Kawabata Yasunari see all copies from £5.54! first editions
22	Japan Beautiful & Myself more books like this by Kawabata see all copies from £9.39! first editions
23	Historias En La Palma de La Mano by Yasunari Kawabata see all copies from £20.59! new only from £20.60!
24 view cover	Primera Nieve En El Monte Fuji more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata see all copies from £15.38! new only from £15.39!
25	Snow Country more books like this by Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata The story of the doomed love affair of a wealthy sophisticate, Shimamura, and the geisha Komako, at a mountain hotspring resort in western Japan, one of the snowiest regions on earth. see all copies from £11.09! first editions

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