Best Friend
About This Novel
Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece that will not be forgotten by time is published for the first time in simplified Chinese. Kawabata Yasunari's last novel for girls depicts complex and intimate emotions with the master's delicate writing style. "Best Friends" is a story about two girls who have similar looks. Emi and Kasumi were born on the same day and have exactly the same cute faces. By such a coincidence, the two naturally became good friends. Although their faces and birthdays are the same, their family environments and personalities are completely different. Huimei, the eldest daughter of a well-off family, has a calm personality; Kasumi, whose father passed away, grew up with her mother's pampering, is sensitive and willful. One after another unexpected things happened to them together, and the trivialities and inevitability of these lives made the two closer but also caused differences, and finally ushered in the moment of separation...
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Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Articles like boiled water
As plain as boiled water, and as soft as boiled water. The kind that will come back to you. I kept expecting there to be a story or thread throughout, but there wasn't. It wasn't until it ended with Xia Mei's letter that I discovered that the friendship in early summer, the friendship I had glimpsed from a third perspective, with the friendship of Xiao Yu, had ended abruptly. But his descriptions are very delicate, and his sentences are also very gentle. When I read it, I felt that it was an article in a classic Japanese aesthetic style. It's not that it's artificial, but it's so everyday and ordinary, it feels like it's happening around me. I kept reading calmly until the last page, but I became like a person in the book who lost two good friends, Kasumi and Emi, and I was integrated into the book before I realized it. As the two of them lost their clothes, they became afraid, and as they became estranged because of their uncle, they wanted to rush in to mediate. It's quite cute, and it feels like looking at myself as a child. It's really rare. If I get old, can I still pretend to be a child and write articles or memoirs in their tone?
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Community(0)
Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Articles like boiled water
As plain as boiled water, and as soft as boiled water. The kind that will come back to you. I kept expecting there to be a story or thread throughout, but there wasn't. It wasn't until it ended with Xia Mei's letter that I discovered that the friendship in early summer, the friendship I had glimpsed from a third perspective, with the friendship of Xiao Yu, had ended abruptly. But his descriptions are very delicate, and his sentences are also very gentle. When I read it, I felt that it was an article in a classic Japanese aesthetic style. It's not that it's artificial, but it's so everyday and ordinary, it feels like it's happening around me. I kept reading calmly until the last page, but I became like a person in the book who lost two good friends, Kasumi and Emi, and I was integrated into the book before I realized it. As the two of them lost their clothes, they became afraid, and as they became estranged because of their uncle, they wanted to rush in to mediate. It's quite cute, and it feels like looking at myself as a child. It's really rare. If I get old, can I still pretend to be a child and write articles or memoirs in their tone?
