The Master of Go
$32.59
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2006
Summary
A haunting, elegiac work from Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with an introduction by Liza Dalby, bestselling author of Geisha.
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and invincible Master and a younger, mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224078184 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224078186 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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This novel is one of modern literature’s greatest, most poignant elegies
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 *
About The Author
Yasunari Kawabata
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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