Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
Novels
Snow Country (1956)
A Thousand Cranes (1959)
Beauty and Sadness (1964)
The Existence and Discovery of Beauty (1969)
The Sound of the Mountain (1969)
The Master of Go (1972)
The Lake (1974)
The Old Capital (1987)
First Snow on Fuji (1999)
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (2005)
Dandelions (2017)
A Thousand Cranes (1959)
Beauty and Sadness (1964)
The Existence and Discovery of Beauty (1969)
The Sound of the Mountain (1969)
The Master of Go (1972)
The Lake (1974)
The Old Capital (1987)
First Snow on Fuji (1999)
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (2005)
Dandelions (2017)
Omnibus
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