East Asian Literary Fiction

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Two masterworks by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. In Snow Country, a wealthy dilettante meets a geisha at a remote hot spring, and their affair unfolds against the desolate beauty of winter in western Japan — desire constrained by silence, snow, and the impossibility of permanence. Thousand Cranes follows. Spare, restrained, and devastating.

More East Asian Literary Fiction

• Run, Melos! and Other Stories — Osamu Dazai
• Strange Weather in Tokyo — Hiromi Kawakami
• Killing Commendatore, Volume 2 — Haruki Murakami
• Molka — Monika Kim
• The Honjin Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima
• 空の境界（上） — Kinoko Nasu
• Sweet Bean Paste — Durian Sukegawa

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