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

4.0

I don't like reading the blurbs on the backs of books so that I don't come to a story with preconceived ideas. That said, I started reading House of the Sleeping Beauties with my own preconceived ideas based on the title. It sounded like like such a straightforward title, but it and one of the stories that followed, One Arm, took such unusual turns from the very start that I found it pleasantly surprising. Still, this is not my favorite of Kawabata's works that I've read. For that, I recommend The Sound of the Mountain.