Kawabata, Yasunari 1899-1972

Snow country by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
227 editions published between 1937 and 2011 in 21 languages and held by 2,272 libraries worldwide
This book presents English translations of two short novels by the 1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Snow Mountain is a nuanced love story involving a discouraged urbanite (Shimamura) and a rural geisha (Komako). 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 to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Thousand Cranes is another love story. This melancholy tale uses the classical tea ceremony as a background for the story of a young man's relationships to two women, his father's former mistress and her daughter.

The sound of the mountain by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
96 editions published between 1954 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 1,611 libraries worldwide
Focuses on the anxieties, desires, and emotions of a sensitive old Japanese man.

Thousand cranes by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
95 editions published between 1952 and 9999 in 15 languages and held by 1,423 libraries worldwide
A young man is involved briefly with the two mistresses of his dead father and with the daughter of one of them. In these limited relationships, the limitless human capacity for inertia and illusion is suggested and the infinite strange combinations of human joy and suffering.

The master of go by 川端康成 ( Book )
59 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,389 libraries worldwide
Symbolic novel reporting a match of the Japanese game of go.

Beauty and sadness by 川端康成 ( Book )
64 editions published between 1965 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 1,307 libraries worldwide
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The lake by 川端康成 ( Book )
61 editions published between 1955 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,260 libraries worldwide

Palm-of-the-hand stories by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
41 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in 10 languages and held by 1,169 libraries worldwide

The old capital by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
85 editions published between 1962 and 2009 in 17 languages and held by 1,103 libraries worldwide
This novel tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. Since her youth, Chieko has been told that she was kidnapped as a baby by the couple in a moment of profound desire. When she is twenty, however, she learns that she was actually a foundling, abandoned by her real parents. Still, the love and affection Takichiro and Shige have given her satisfy her heart and she has no desire to seek out her biological parents--until she makes a startling discovery before the altar of Yasaka shrine. This work was specifically cited by the Nobel committee as one of the three novels for which the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.

The house of the sleeping beauties and other stories by 川端康成 ( Book )
28 editions published between 1969 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,047 libraries worldwide

First snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata ( Book )
16 editions published between 1958 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 786 libraries worldwide
A play and eight stories by a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize. In the title story, an ex-husband and wife try unsuccessfully to recapture their old feelings, in another story a romance fails to take off because he dislikes her ears.