The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata

The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata with Martin J. Holman (Translator)

172 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction literary reflective relaxing slow-paced
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The Old Capital is of one of the three works for which Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Set in Kyoto -- the old capital of Japan for a thousand years -- this lyric novel traces the life of Chieko, the beloved adopted daughter o...

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