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Nemureru bijo
Yasunari Kawabata
publisher: , 1968

translated as:
House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1969
translation: Edward G. Seidensticker

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Three short stories center on a lonely protagonist and his peculiar eroticism. An exploration of the interplay of fantasy and reality at work on a mind in solitude.


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BOOKS BY YASUNARI KAWABATA:

House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories
1968
Three short stories center on a lonely protagonist and his peculiar eroticism. An exploration of the interplay of fantasy and reality at work on a mind in solitude.
Snow Country
1947
Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love.
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