House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

Download or read book House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at his very best.