Yasunari Kawabata
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English
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"By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo's life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments,...
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Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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Intriga, sensualidad y el escenario íntimo de la ceremonia del té.
En la ciudad de Kamakura, una mujer que oculta una mancha en uno de los pechos manipula los preciosos objetos de la ceremonia del té, que conecta a distintas generaciones con un erotismo sutil. Al ingresar en el recinto donde se celebra el rito, el narrador advierte a un trío de mujeres que le dan la espalda. Todas serán vértices de sucesivas rotaciones amorosas.
Yasunari Kawabata...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.
In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at...
In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at...
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Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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Una historia envuelta en nostalgia y pasión desbordante.
Impulsado por la nostalgia, Oki Toshio decide viajar a Kioto para oír las campanas del templo en el Año Nuevo. Pero, además, quiere volver a ver a Otoko, su antigua amante, ahora pintora. Todavía hermosa, Otoko vive con su protegida Keiko, una joven sensual y apasionada de apenas veinte años, que desencade-nará un cruel drama de amor, venganza y destrucción. Yasunari Kawabata publicó...
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Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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Una profunda partida de ajedrez entre la vida y la muerte. Una obra maestra que desafía los límites del tiempo y la mente humana.
Hacia 1938, el jugador de go Shūsai Honnimbo se encuentra próximo a morir. Es el Gran Maestro de su época. El tiempo de Shūsai llega a su fin mientras se inicia el ascenso del joven Otake. Un día de pleno verano, Shūsai y Otake se aíslan del mundo para enfrentarse en un campeonato que dejará a uno solo en la cima...
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Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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Un viaje íntimo a través de narrativas breves que capturan la esencia de la vida y las emociones humanas.
Como soñadas, intensamente atmosféricas, por momentos autobiográficas y otras veces fantásticas, estas historias reflejan el interés del autor por la miniatura y el fragmento. En Historias en la palma de la mano conviven la soledad, el amor, el paso del tiempo, los rituales y la muerte. Este conjunto de relatos captura el rango inigualable...
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Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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El hechizo de un amor apasionado se entrelaza con la belleza hipnótica de las termas japonesas.
Shimamura, acaudalado caballero de mediana edad, regresa a "la espalda de Japón" atraído por Komako, joven aprendiz de geisha a quien conoció en un viaje anterior. El amor apasionado que Shimamura despierta en ella le plantea a este un dilema: incapaz de corresponderlo pero a la vez fascinado por su intensidad, optará por prolongar su estadía en las...
8) Kioto
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Series
Publisher
Seix Barral Argentina
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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Los lazos familiares y las costumbres a través de generaciones.
Chieko es la bellísima hija del prestigioso diseñador de kimonos Takichiro, a quien desde pequeña sus padres le revelan que ha sido abandonada por una geisha. Al cumplir los veinte años descubre que en realidad Takichiro y su mujer la encontraron bajo unos cerezos y, ansiosos por ser padres, se la llevaron. El amor que Chieko siente por ambos hace que no tenga deseos de encontrar...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1969.
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English
Description
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...
10) Thousand cranes
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Snow country
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1956.
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English
Description
With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako, who gives herself to him without regrets, knowing that their passion cannot last. Shimamura is a dilettante...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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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.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters--born to the same father but different mothers--struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. Momoko, their father's first child--haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final,...
17) Dandelions
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions--exploring love and madness--is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Hospital, which she has entered for treatment of a condition that might be called "seizures of body blindness." Although her vision as a whole is...
18) The old capital
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Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
Description
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...
19) The master of go
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
"Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan...