The house of the sleeping beauties : and other stories / Yasunari Kawabata ; introduction by Yukio M...
The house of the sleeping beauties : and other stories / Yasunari Kawabata ; introduction by Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
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G 2018/2957
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Language
English
Japanese
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148 pages ; 21 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- House of the sleeping beauties -- One arm -- Of birds and beasts.
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Publisher
New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
Edition
First Vintage International edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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"In the three surreal, erotically charged tales in this collection, Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. These stories are piercing evocations of sexuality and human psychology-- and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty--that showcase one of the twentieth centu...
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The house of the sleeping beauties : and other stories / Yasunari Kawabata ; introduction by Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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©1969
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G 2018/2957
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74VKVo8w5WWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVo8w5WWd
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ISBN
0525434135 (paperback)
9780525434139 (paperback)
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895.634
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991024169413502626