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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...Show more
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G Seidensticker (translator)
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 complex in its execution, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and invinci ...Show more
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
24.99 NZD
30.00 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust--all the elements of Kawabata's fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N-ō drama." --"Saturday R ...Show more
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with ...Show more
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