The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata

The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata with Martin J. Holman (Translator)

172 pages first pub 1962 (view editions)

fiction literary reflective relaxing slow-paced
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The Old Capital is of one of the three works for which Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Set in Kyoto -- the old capital of Japan for a thousand years -- this lyric novel traces the life of Chieko, the beloved adopted daughter o...

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