House of the Sleeping Beauties
By:"Yasunari Kawabata","Edward Seidensticker"
Published on 2004 by Kodansha Amer Incorporated
From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories explore the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. Kawabata's fiction is noted for combining a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends: his richly lyrical prose is imbued with a sense of loneliness and alienation. In these three tales, underlying the erotic fantasy is the protagonists' lack of connection with other people, and their memories of past loves in an empty sterile life. The title story, \
This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.
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