3.56 avg rating — 41,144 ratings

"The most delicately beautiful book I've read."

3.69 avg rating — 15,585 ratings

"Tentative relationships. Delicate prose."

4.12 avg rating — 547,508 ratings

"A magical mix and setting."

3.85 avg rating — 9,545 ratings

"The private self set against that shown even to intimates."

3.99 avg rating — 727,655 ratings

"Romantic, eclectic, a coffee table book."

3.95 avg rating — 339,509 ratings

"Massively inventive, yet let down by 2 significant sections/reasons."

3.94 avg rating — 48,096 ratings

"Highly readable if not fully rounded in plausibility."

3.80 avg rating — 15,226 ratings

"It's Kawabata (even if not his best). Read any Kawabata."