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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward Seidensticker
Publisher
Kodansha Amer Inc
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
152

Kawabata at his most unsettling. Old men visiting sleeping girls who cannot wake, cannot respond—a house where desire meets its own impossible limits. Not for everyone, but essential for those drawn to literature's stranger territories. The translator's hand is steady. These stories ask what intimacy means when touch becomes observation, when longing curdles into something darker. Handle with care.

$5.00 SKU 9780870114267
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