First snow on Fuji
ISBN: | 1582430225, 9781582430225 |
OCLC Number: | 462289502 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
Author: | Yasunari Kawabata |
Translator: | Michael Emmerich |
Language: | en |
Publisher: | Counterpoint |
Publication Place: | Washington, D.C. |
English Publication Date: | 1999 |
Notes: | Japanese title: Fuji no hatsuyuki. Contents: This country, that country, A row of trees, Nature, Raindrops, Chrysanthemum in the rock, First snow on Fuji, Silence, Her husband didn't, Yumiura, The boat-women. |
Abstract: | First published in 1958, this collection is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing, and with the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. |
Subjects: | Yasunari Kawabata, Translations into English |