This is an interesting and touching novel by the Nobel Prize winner from 1968 Yasunari Kawabata. His win is perfectly well-deserved as he’s a great writer, but I get the sense that the Nobel committee perhaps felt like they missed their chance with Junichiro Tanizaki dying a few years earlier, not necessarily wanting to risk giving the prize to Mishima. And Kawabata became a worthy if modest prize winner. This novel is not wholly a novel, and according to the introduction, was more of a […]