川端康成

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, …

The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.

千羽鹤，又译千只鹤，日本小说家川端康成作品，全书共分为五个部分，依序是〈千羽鹤〉、〈林中落日〉、〈志野瓷〉、〈母亲的口红〉与〈双重星〉。在《千羽鹤》这部小说中川端藉茶道反映出日本人心理。

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. …