Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. This novel is the Chinese translated version in which was cited by the Nobel Committee in their decision to award Kawabata the 1968 Prize for Literature. The story is set in Kyoto, and incorporates various festivals celebrated there.
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Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. This novel is the Chinese translated version in which was cited by the Nobel Committee in their decision to award Kawabata the 1968 Prize for Literature. The story is set in Kyoto, and incorporates various festivals celebrated there.
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