The Master of Go

Informationen zum Autor Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of Japan's most distinguished novelists. Born in Osaka in 1899, he published his first stories while he was still in high school. Among his major novels published across the world are Snow Country (1956), Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972. Klappentext Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and friends. Zusammenfassung Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and friends.

Product details

• Authors: Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari
• Publisher: Yellow Jersey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780224078184
• ISBN: 978-0-224-07818-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general and literary, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Board Games, 1926–1945 (Japanese pre-war Showa period), Board games: Go