Son of Heaven (kawabata Yasunari's Works Series)
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A volume of white drawings full of love and affection between an adopted daughter and her parents, showing the true love in the ordinary. The autobiography of Kawabata Yasunari, a "leading figure" in the Japanese literary world and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a precious work that peeps into the depths of the soul. It describes the symbol of Japanese beauty with a unique style and strong emotions. It has superb narrative skills and expresses the spiritual characteristics of the Japanese people with extraordinary sensitivity. "The Son of God" is a collection of autobiographical novels by Kawabata Yasunari, which includes four short stories: "Hometown", "Tokaido", "Tower of Sentiment", and "The Son of God". From the age of two to fourteen, Kawabata Yasunari's parents, sister, and grandparents died one after another. The plot of "Orphans from the End of the World" lingered in his life. In "Hometown", the author takes the opportunity of welcoming his adopted daughter to review his lonely boyhood; "Tokaido" remembers his old friend's journey to Beijing and explores the relationship between art and eternity; "God-given Son" describes the father-daughter relationship with his adopted daughter and records the activities of the Japanese PEN Association after the war... "God-given Son" is a precious work that peeks into the depths of Kawabata Yasunari's soul.
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