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About This Novel

"Ancient Capital" tells the story of the joys and sorrows of a pair of twin sisters in Kyoto. The elder sister Chieko was abandoned due to her poor family, and was later adopted by the silk merchant Taijiro and his wife, and became a beautiful girl; the younger sister Miaozi became an orphan when she was in her infancy, and stayed in the mountain village to be employed when she grew up. The two met by chance on the night of Gion Festival and were surprised to learn that they were twin sisters. One is delicate and sensitive, the other is kind and simple, but they cannot recognize each other due to the huge difference in status... "Ancient Capital" is one of the three works by Kawabata Yasunari that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. In this novel, Kawabata Yasunari depicts the beautiful Japan in his heart. The image of the girl in his works is pure and lovely, and the whole novel is filled with the girl's poetic sadness. The colors of the works are bright and healthy, and the style of the times is also shown. Readers will fall in love with Kyoto and yearn for Kyoto through this book.

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