Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

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…

In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops

Paperback

Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata

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…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Beauty and Sadness

Yasunari Kawabata

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

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…

Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order

Paperback

Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata

Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. A brief, compact dramatic story…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata

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.

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Beauty and Sadness

Yasunari Kawabata

First published in the U.S. by A.A. Knopf, New York, 1975.

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Books, books & more books.

Straight to your inbox.

Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country

Thousand Cranes

Beauty and Sadness

The Sound of the Mountain

Snow Country

Thousand Cranes

The Old Capital

Beauty and Sadness