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With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters passionsone of Japans great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji andthe tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota the rival of his dead fathersmistress. A tale of desire regret and sensual nostalgia every gesture has ameaning and even the most fleeting touch or casual utterance has the power toilluminate entire livessometimes in the same moment that it destroys them.Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.A novel of exquisite artistry...rich suggestibility...and a story that ishuman vivid and moving.New York Herald TribuneKawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades of the evanescent theimperceptible. This is a tragedy in soft focus but its passions are fierce.Commonweal «
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