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Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of Japan's most distinguished novelists. Born in Osaka in 1899, he published his first stories while he was still in high school. Among his major novels published across the world are Snow Country (1956), Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972.

Books by Yasunari Kawabata
The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata

A haunting, elegiac work from Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with an introduction by Liza Dalby, bestselling author of Geisha.

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The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata

Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age

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