A review by worstwitch
The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

3.0

3.5 maybe. My first Kawabata and perhaps I shouldn't have selected his later short stories as my first. I was too intrigued by House of the Sleeping Beauties to not read it right away though. The young, virginal girls sleeping next to old men who are aged emotionally and physically by time/events/relationships reminded me so much of Humbert Humbert & Lolita. An attraction to innocence, before corruption can touch them-- a longing to be near this and possess it for a night.

My favorites were One Arm and Of Birds and Beasts though.