Yasunari Kawabata
Born
in Osaka, Japan
June 14, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972
Genre
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Snow Country
by
183 editions
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published
1948
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Thousand Cranes
122 editions
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published
1952
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Beauty and Sadness
101 editions
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published
1964
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The Sound of the Mountain
by
7 editions
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published
1953
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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
by
58 editions
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published
1961
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The Old Capital
by
84 editions
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published
1962
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La casa de las bellas durmientes
by
87 editions
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published
1961
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The Master of Go
by
52 editions
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published
1951
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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by
52 editions
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published
1971
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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
by
75 editions
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published
1926
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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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Polls
May 2017 New School Classic Poll
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 1997, 512
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1997, 607
My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980, 416
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 1908, 182
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 1989, 288 pgs
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962, 246
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, 189
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 892
Silence by Shūsaku Endō, 1966, 201
After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda, 1902, 174
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, 1959, 341
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