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Evocative lyrical tales of presence, absence, memory.

If you're drawn to the subtle and poetic layers of human experience, "First Snow on Fuji" could be a treasure for you. Imagine immersing yourself in the still, reflective world where every emotion is colored with the delicate brushstrokes of Kawabata's prose. Through these stories, you'll feel the poignant beauty of life's fleeting moments and the tender scars of its losses.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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First Snow on Fuji

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ISBN: 9781582431055
Publisher: Counterpoint
Date of Publication: 1999-10-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.78
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The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata’s unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.
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Evocative lyrical tales of presence, absence, memory.

If you're drawn to the subtle and poetic layers of human experience, "First Snow on Fuji" could be a treasure for you. Imagine immersing yourself in the still, reflective world where every emotion is colored with the delicate brushstrokes of Kawabata's prose. Through these stories, you'll feel the poignant beauty of life's fleeting moments and the tender scars of its losses.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.