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Yasunari Kawabata

Born

in Osaka, Japan

June 14, 1899

Died

April 16, 1972

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today.
Nobel Lecture: 1968
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Average rating: 3.7 · 105,055 ratings · 11,131 reviews · 301 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 30,719 ratings — published 1948 — 239 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thousand Cranes 3.72 avg rating — 12,575 ratings — published 1952 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty and Sadness 3.82 avg rating — 11,934 ratings — published 1964 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 7,738 ratings — published 1953 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Yukio Mishima (Introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 7,937 ratings — published 1961 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator), Vanja Lantz (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 5,945 ratings — published 1962 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La casa de las bellas durmientes 3.54 avg rating — 5,788 ratings — published 1961 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 4,759 ratings — published 1951 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 3,292 ratings — published 1926 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop (Translator), J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 3,028 ratings — published 1971 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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“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.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

tags: beauty-and-sadness

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Polls

July 2017 New School Classic Poll

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 1951, 352 pgs

46 votes, 13.2%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pgs, 1940

35 votes, 10.1%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pgs, 1981

33 votes, 9.5%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 1967, 192 pgs

28 votes, 8.0%

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1994, 607 pgs

27 votes, 7.8%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 1945, 185 pgs

26 votes, 7.5%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pgs, 1969

26 votes, 7.5%

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 1930, 267 pgs

23 votes, 6.6%

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980, 416 pgs

22 votes, 6.3%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 636 pgs

18 votes, 5.2%

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1992, 320

14 votes, 4.0%

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, 189 pgs

13 votes, 3.7%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, 335 pgs

11 votes, 3.2%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904, 425 pgs

10 votes, 2.9%

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 1920, 454 pgs

9 votes, 2.6%

Independent People by Halldór Laxness, 482 pgs, 1934

4 votes, 1.1%

Creation by Gore Vidal, 1981, 574 pgs

3 votes, 0.9%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435

0 votes, 0.0%

348 total votes

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