First Snow on Fuji

Emmerich, Michael,Kawabata, Yasunari

ISBN 10: 1582430225 / ISBN 13: 9781582430225

Published by Counterpoint, 1999

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Synopsis:

First published in 1958, this collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing.

Synopsis: A beautiful translation of ten short stories by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata.. The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabatas unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.

Bibliographic Details

Title: First Snow on Fuji
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good