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YASUNARI KAWABATA

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Publisher:
LADYBIRD
Year of publication:
2022
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-59736-1
Pages:
157
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"If the ending is doomed at the beginning of the encounter, will you still pursue the snowflakes falling in your heart in vain?" Kawabata Yasunari's beautiful masterpiece carved over 13 years Nobel Prize for Literature, the first person in Japanese literature, Kawabata Literature A masterpiece that is second to none Liu Ziqian, a famous Japanese literary translator, uses condensed and timeless words to lead readers to see the beauty of Kawabata-style language that is transparent, beautiful and unstained.

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