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1	Snow country more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $8.23! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Palm-of-the-hand stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist These stories were written over a 50 year period and include the author's last work before his death in 1972, "Cleanings From Snow Country", a miniaturization of his highly acclaimed novel, "Snow Country". His other books include "Thousand Cranes" and "Beauty and Sadness". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.29! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Thousand cranes more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke".--Chicago Tribune. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.22! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Sound of the Mountain more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.71! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Beauty and sadness more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 $4.38! new only from $7.89! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The master of go more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.52! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Lake more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist The Lake is the story of a stalker. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, he has an incurable longing that drives him to trail certain women he meets as he wanders about. The longing is for something out of reach: a beauty admired from a distance, unconsumated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist This is an erotic and disturbing story of an old man who visits a brothel to sleep beside young women who are drugged into a sleep from which they cannot be wakened. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Scarlet Gang of Asakusa more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Ō Ta Saburō (Illustrator), Alisa Freedman (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $3.31! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Old Capital more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $9.41! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) add to wishlist Influential Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fiction with this new collection of stories that parallel major events and themes in his life. In the lyrical prose that is his signature, these 23 tales reflect Kawabata's keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep melancholy that characterizes ... see all copies from $2.84! new only from $11.46! \| first editions
12	Snow country ; and, Thousand cranes more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
13	The Old Capital: Yasunari Kawabata more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, J Martin Holman (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $2.16! new only from $38.50! \| first editions
14	Sound of Mountain more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G Seidensticker (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
15 view cover	First Snow on Fuji more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist Eight stories and a play by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Yasunari Kawabata. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.56! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Izu Dancer and Other Stories more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue, Edward Seidensticker (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Snow Country more books like this by Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 $9.95! first editions
18	Beauty and Sadness more books like this by Vasunari Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Pais de Nieve by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 $9.13! new only from $20.30!
20 view cover	Lo Bello y Lo Triste more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist 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 $18.79! new only from $20.69!
21	Japan Beautiful & Myself more books like this by Kawabata add to wishlist see all copies from $16.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
22	Tin House: the Secret Life of the Lonely Doll (Volume 1, Number 2) [Paperback... by David Leavitt; Victor D. Lavalle; Mark Poirier; Kawabata Yasunari add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
23	Fob and House of Sleeping Beauties: Two Plays more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, David Henry Hwang add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! new only from $7.00!
24 view cover	Kodansha's Illustrated Japanese Classics more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata, Professor Donald Keene (Translator), Masayuki Miyata (Illustrator) add to wishlist A retelling of the early Heian-period prose work about a supernatural being found by a bamboo cutter and brought up as his daughter. He urges his "daughter" to marry but she sets fantastic quests to her suiters. All fail. Eventually she reveals she is from the Palace of the Moon and departs. see all copies from $21.53! new only from $21.53! \| SVS
25 view cover	Primera Nieve En El Monte Fuji more books like this by Yasunari Kawabata add to wishlist see all copies from $15.66! new only from $15.67!

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