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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 194
A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master 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,
' Thousand Cranes has the qualities of the best Japanese writing: a stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter's sensitivity to the visible world' Atlantic Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. H
The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric
In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan Edmund White With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born t
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-i
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, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional chro
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow t
Den japanske nobelpristager Yasunari Kawabatas sene mesterværk om alderdom, begær og moral. En mørk aften ankommer den gamle mand Eguchi til et ensomt beliggende hus for at opleve en hemmelig og forbudt nydelse. I huset kan man mod betaling få lov at sove
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, ha
Ved en teceremoni møder den unge Kikuji Mitani sin afdøde fars elskerinde, enkefru Ota. Efter ceremonien opsøger hun ham, og der opstår en forbindelse imellem de to. Det bliver starten på et skæbnesvangert forløb, som også fru Otas datter, Fumiko, hvirvle
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. - "Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of
From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire soci
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital te
"De sovende skønheder" er et af de sene mesterværker, skrevet af den japanske nobelpristager Yasunari Kawabata. Gamle Eguchi ankommer en mørk aften til et hus, hvor han skal tilbringe en nat med hemmelig og forbudt nydelse. I det afsidesliggende
"En ætsende smuk og ædende ond kærlighedshistorie" - Jyllands-Posten "... intet mindre end et hovedværk i den japanske litteratur." - Information " Snelandet er et mesterværk." - Litteratursiden Yasunari Kawbatas mesterværk f
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called Palm-of-the-Hand Stories--written over the span of his
Japanske Yasunari Kawabata fik Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1968 for "hans fortællekunst, som med fin følelse udtrykker japansk væsen i dets egenart". Skjødt Forlag har tidligere udgivet "Snelandet".
Tyve år er gået siden hittebarnet Chieko i kirsebærblomsternes tid blev fundet af Takichiro og hans kone Shige. Efter en øjensynlig lykkelig opvækst i den gamle kejserby blandt vævere og tekstilgrosserere opdager Chieko ved et tilfælde, at hun har en søst