The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and friends.
This novel is one of modern literature's greatest, most poignant elegies * Washington Post *
Kawabata's narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns.. There is a kind of low-key daring, an austere, autumnal nobility, in Kawabata's tale * Time *
An archetypal saga... there are storms and landscapes as cool, as luminous, as any in Japanese paintings and woodcuts * The New Yorker *
Kawabata's narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns.. There is a kind of low-key daring, an austere, autumnal nobility, in Kawabata's tale * Time *
An archetypal saga... there are storms and landscapes as cool, as luminous, as any in Japanese paintings and woodcuts * The New Yorker *
Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of Japan's most distinguished novelists. Born in Osaka in 1899, he published his first stories while he was still in high school. Among his major novels published across the world are Snow Country (1956), Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224078184 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224078186 |
| Title | The Master of Go |
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-08-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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