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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

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nobel Prize-Winner Yasunari Yawabata, and his remarkable fictional account of a world about to be cleft in two as two men battle to become the master of the strategy game, Go.

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The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata

VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICS
Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.

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