About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780399505256ISBN:0399505253
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 142 lightly tanned pgs in vg reading condition; cover has very slight wear on edges and removed sticker mark on front. Prev owners name sticker on endpaper. read more
Edition: fifteenth printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion Book
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight binding with light edge rubbing and soft corner creases. Some light shelf rubbing & age spots on edges & back. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 1981-Paperback---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books, New York
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780425018989ISBN:0425018989
Description: Fair/Wraps. Mass market paperback, fair condition, w. ltly tanned, ltly rubbed wraps, sme lt marks. Slanted sp, lt sp crease. Smwht tanned ins wraps, pp. Text block separating from sp. Sme pp loose. Cln and unmarked. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good Plus. G425. Light rubbing to edges; tight book; tanned else very good internally. "The passionate story of a geisha's affair in an exotic pleasure resort. " Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Vintage Paperbacks Inventory No: 018026. read more
Story is “old fashioned” to Western eyes, in that it is a love story about a (then)”modern” man and a geisha. My background in Asian studies doesn’t go deeply enough to know if this relationship would be possible nowadays in Japan, but I doubt it.
Still, the story is tender and vividly describes the lives of the people of the time. The man is the problem in this story ... a self-centered, somewhat shallow person who has enough money to do what he wants, but doesn’t really know what he wants.
The geisha figure is intelligent and unfortunate in her birth circumstances, and, in Japanese society (probably even now), doomed to her position vis-a-vis men.
Worth reading for its insights into a very different culture and time."
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