The Master of Go

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.>

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Yasunari Kawabata

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• Authors: Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781529982671
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-8267-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Brief Encounters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general