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144 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140039392
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Description
In 1938 Kawabata covered a championship Go match for his Tokyo newspaper. This intricate novel is a transmutation of that epic contest into fiction. The challenger, young, aggressive, gregarious, faces the Master, frail, aged, solitary. It is a du...
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144 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140039392
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 01 January 1976
Description
In 1938 Kawabata covered a championship Go match for his Tokyo newspaper. This intricate novel is a transmutation of that epic contest into fiction. The challenger, young, aggressive, gregarious, faces the Master, frail, aged, solitary. It is a du...