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Thousand Cranes
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress'...
Snow Country
A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...
The Old Capital
Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Old Capital is of one of the three works for which Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in...
The Master of Go
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Thousand Cranes
Thousand Cranes exemplifies Kawabata's mastery of the nuances of human psychology Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to...
Snow Country
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Tired of the bustling city, a...
The Sound of the Mountain
Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death...
The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
Author: Lane Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in...
The Rainbow
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...
Thirst For Love
A masterwork of Japanese literary fiction, Thirst for Love chronicles the psychological unraveling of Etsuko, a young widow who moves into her late husband's family estate in rural Japan and...
日本の名画 16: 川端龍子 (Japanese Masterpiece 16. Kawabata Ryushi Yakai)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Mylar sleeve protecting binding. A landmark volume in Japanese art publishing, this monograph...
The Bear and the Paving Stone
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical...
The Bear and the Paving Stone
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical...
Forging Silver into Stars: The exhilarating young adult romantasy
_______________ Rediscover the worlds of Emberfall and Syhl Shallow in this irresistible return to Brigid Kemmerer's New York Times bestselling Cursebreakers series. _______________ Tycho of Rillisk has been a lot...
The Coast Road: 'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: N EWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' A perfect book...
Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro
Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the...