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Title: First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata, Michael Emmerich ISBN: 1-58243-105-1 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 10 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Earlobes, novels, and cheating wives
Comment: This was the 8th Yasunari Kawabata book that I have read. Kawabata finished writing this book back in the year 1959. It was during a time in his life in which he spent more time touring Japan and the worls than actually writing, so the reader must keep in mind that he wrote these beautiful stories while he was basiacally on the run from place to place. The stories in the book are all pretty sad. The first "This Country, That Country" deals with a young housewife named Takako who is having an affair behind her husband's back the thing is she is not having the affair with the man she wants to be having the affair with. The reader sees Takako torment when she talks to her secret love or even just thanks of him. She seems to know more about him than his wife. Oh, did I mention that she is the neighbor of her secret love?
That is just an example of the stories that Kawabata weaves here. They are short and can be read in a short reading, but Kawabata's short stories have more meaning than some authors' 700 page novels. I really liked the stories "Nature" and "Silence" myself, and the story "Yumiura" is one of the saddess pieces of literature that I have ever read. A good book, but if you are new to Kawabata read _Thousand Cranes_ or beauty and Sadness instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: This volume should be in every library. Elegant and subtle language weave each tale that are delicately, and often painfully, human. The conclusions, abrupt and ambiguous, are haunting and thought provoking. This is a collection of stories that moves you and speaks to you long after you've finished.
Rating: 5
Summary: Elegant and Simple
Comment: This book, without a doubt, was the most elegant I have ever read. The langage is so beautiful that one reads it the same way one might poetry. Though the language alone could have made the book worthwhile, the stories are also haunting, like a painting that slowly reveals its secrets and hidden meanings. My favorite was the first story, "This Country That Country," but all of them are extraordinary.
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Title: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata ISBN: 0679762655 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Snow Country by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata ISBN: 0679761047 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman ISBN: 1887178945 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata ISBN: 0679761055 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. Martin Holman ISBN: 0865474125 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 16 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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