Nobel prize winner yasunari kawabatas snow country is widely considered to be the writers masterpiece. Yasunari kawabatas short story collection, first snow on fuji, was published in 1958, at the precipice of a time in his life when his health and the demands on his time as a literary figure of primacy led to a period of silence, creatively. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the. Yasunari kawabata is widely recognized as one of the most significant figures in modern japanese literature. Buy the old capital book online at low prices in india. The old capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the nobel committee when they awarded kawabata the nobel prize for. Chieko discovered the violets flowering on the trunk of the old maple tree. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. By the late nobel prizewinning author of the master of go published here in 1972, this novel was first published in japan in 1962.
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