The Master of Go
$19.69
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nobel Prize-Winner Yasunari Kawabata, and his remarkable fictional account of a world about to be cleft in two as two men battle to become the master of the strategy game, Go.
Luminous, suspenseful, and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating, of two men—and a whole society—facing defeat.
Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, the strategy game Go is an expression of the Japanes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529982671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529982677 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
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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)
- Beauty and Sadness (1975)
Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972.
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