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The Old Capital
by Yasunari Kawabata • J. Martin Holman (Translator)
- LITERATURE
- 2006
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- 160 PAGES
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Kawabata captures perfectly the tension between tradition and new ways in postwar Japan in this lyrical novel, originally published in 1962. Set in Kyoto, it's the story of Chieko Saga, the adopted daughter of a kimono manufacturer -- and her discovery of an identical twin sister. Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in 1968.
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