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Includes two masterpieces, "Snow Country" and "Thousand Cranes". "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's highest masterpiece. The beauty of nothingness, purity and sadness depicted in this painting reaches the extreme, making people heart-thumping and melancholy at the same time. "Thousand Cranes" expresses the conflict between love and reason, and depicts Japanese scenery and psychology to the extreme. It seems that there are thousands of white cranes flying in the sunset between the lines.

This book includes Kawabata Yasunari's three representative works "Celebrity", "Dancing Girl" and "Sound of the Mountain". Kawabata Yasunari, Japan's first Nobel Prize winner for literature, wrote many works throughout his life. Publishing his anthology first involves the selection and collection of texts. As a national-level professional publishing house for domestic literary publishing, the People's Literature Publishing House publishes Kawabata Yasunari's anthology, which also reflects the professionalism of literature. The three works selected in this book, "Celebrity", "Dancer" and "Sound of the Mountain", are masterpieces from Kawabata's creative prime. The contents of these three works are different. "Celebrity" tells the story of a Go player; "Dancer" reflects the uneasiness of post-war Japanese society through the love story of a dancer mother and daughter; and "Sound of the Mountain" is a representative of family novels in Japan's aging society after the war. The three novels not only have different story themes, but also different artistic ideas expressed, from which we can see the author's superb creative level. The translator of this book, Chen Dewen, started translating Japanese classic literature as early as the early 1980s. He has been immersed in Japanese literary translation experience for many years. He not only has in-depth research on Kawabata Yasunari's literature, but also has unique insights. He is the best choice to translate Kawabata's works. In this publication, the text has been specially revised to make it more concise and elegant.

"Snow Country" describes the emotional entanglement between Shimamura, a dance art researcher, who went to a hot spring hotel in Snow Country three times, and a local geisha named Komako, and a girl named Ye Zi who met by chance. During this period, the beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness are depicted to the extreme.

"Flowers Never Sleep" selects Kawabata Yasunari's fine prose, including "Flowers Never Sleep", "Sorrow", "The Beauty of Japanese Literature", etc. Kawabata Yasunari's delicate sensitivity is reflected in his observation of life details, and his aesthetic thoughts are also hidden in many essays. This collection of essays presents Kawabata's aesthetic thoughts and the essence of oriental Japanese aesthetics.

Selected works by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, set in ten volumes.

Shimamura is a freelancer studying Western ballet in Tokyo. He comes from a wealthy family. He went to Yuzawa Town three times to meet the geisha Komako. Yukio, the son of Komako's shamisen master, suffered from tuberculosis and returned to Yuzawa Town to recuperate accompanied by a woman named Ye Zi. He happened to be sitting opposite Shimamura where he went to meet Komako for the second time. The narrative of the novel begins here. Shimamura admired the snowy scenery at dusk through the fogged car window, but when he saw the bright eyes of the leaves reflected on the car window, he couldn't help but feel moved. Dao Cun not only admires Ju Zi's beauty and character, but at the same time secretly can't let go of the simple Ye Zi...

The condensation of Kawabata Yasunari's literature, a miracle in just one page. Mysterious, illusory, cruel and beautiful. This book selects more than fifty novels: the autobiographical novel "The Bone Picker", which tells the memories of the death of his grandfather; "Glass", which describes the miserable fate of the bottom workers in the glass factory; "Station in the Rain", a sad story caused by the vanity of wives, etc. These novels either show Kawabata's own life as an orphan and the emotional twists and turns, or express his deep sympathy for the people at the bottom, or philosophically think about the psychology of men and women in the world, fully demonstrating Kawabata's rich poetry, fresh and keen feelings, and pessimistic attitude towards life. Among my works, the ones that make people miss and love them the most and the ones that I want to give to others the most are actually these novels. --Kawabata Yasunari

"Thousand-Feathered Crane" includes Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Thousand-Feathered Crane" and its sequel "Hachidori". This novel, full of conflicts and ambiguities, reflects his longing for beauty. At the same time, he also hints that the longing for beauty cannot escape the illusion of a dream.

This set is a set of works by Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari. It includes 9 masterpieces of Kawabata Yasunari's creative career: "Snow Country", "Dancing Girl of Izu", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Sleeping Beauty", "Sound of the Mountain", "Waltz of Flowers", "Station in the Shower", and "Wisteria and Strawberry". This set uses classic translations by well-known translators Ye Weiqu and Tang Yuemei, and adds Ye Weiqu's in-depth interpretation of the corresponding works, as well as a chronology of Kawabata Yasunari's life to help readers better understand Kawabata Yasunari and his creations. It can not only meet readers' daily reading needs, but also has collection value. The beauty of the East is all in Kawabata Yasunari's words; the essence of Kawabata Yasunari's literature is all in these 9 novels. "Snow Country": a textbook of Japanese aesthetics, understanding the beauty of mourning; "The Dancing Girl of Izu": a famous work by a master, taking you back to the beauty of life; "Ancient Capital": using a novel to define this thousand-year-old ancient capital; "Thousand Cranes": a stunning work of Japanese aesthetic literature; "Sleeping Beauty": a true love story The helplessness of death and the remembrance of youth; "Mountain Sound": understand the loneliness and death in Kawabata's works; "Waltz of Flowers": a collection of Kawabata Yasunari's classic short stories; "The Station in the Shower": a collection of Kawabata Yasunari's classic short stories; "Fujihana and Strawberry": a collection of Kawabata Yasunari's classic short stories.

In a corner of Kyoto, Chieko, who was adopted by a brocade merchant, has grown into a slim girl. On the night of the Gion Festival, she met the village girl Miaozi for the first time, and was surprised to find that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. Between the sisters' faint longing and sadness, there are interspersed the beauty of Kyoto's four seasons and their respective explorations of life and emotions. "Ancient Capital" is one of Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning works. It contains two articles, "Ancient Capital" and "Beauty and Sorrow". The text is delicate and sincere, and is known as "the postcard of Japanese literature".

Izu Island, with its spouting volcanoes, represents the country of men; the waves crashing on the island and the trickling spring water are reminiscent of women's strong and soft temperament. The author creates a first love story in a paradise in the beautiful scenery of Izu. Let the young love between boys and girls intersect with the lush overlapping mountain forests and the Panasonic spring water flowing everywhere in autumn.

The protagonist Kikuji is invited by Chikako to attend a tea party. Chikako was once the lover of Kikuji's father. After the death of Kikuji's father's friend Ota, Mrs. Ota often came to Kikuji's father to discuss things, and she became Kikuji's father's new lover during their interactions. Chikako invites Kikuji to a tea party in order to introduce him to his love interest, Miss Inamura. Also seated were Mrs. Ota and her daughter Fumiko. Seeing Kikuji, Mrs. Ota felt a familiar attraction, and the two had sexual relations that night. After being exposed, he was opposed by Chiako and Fumiko. Mrs. Ota felt deeply guilty and committed suicide after seeing Kikuji for the last time. After Fumiko spent the night with Kikuji, she disappeared from sight. Kikuji also admires Yukiko whom Chiko introduced to him. Kawabata Yasunari uses a delicate and euphemistic style to describe the intricate relationship between Kikuji and several women around him, trying to explore the sadness and beauty of human nature from the emotional entanglements that are not recognized by social morality.

The 36-year-old dentist Kenichi Kuhara, who has always been single, lives happily after a blind date and marriage with the beautiful Hariko. Kuhara knows that the 27-year-old Hariko has a cousin who committed suicide due to a failed crush on him. Kuhara does not care. The second night after marrying Kuhara, Hariko felt guilty because she dreamed about her dead cousin. With the help of a doctor friend, Jiuyuan investigated the condition of his cousin's neurasthenia and reassured Zhizi. However, the good memories and God-given blessings of Zhizi seemed to be gradually disappearing.

Hardcover collector's edition of Kawabata Yasunari's novel. Yu Hua highly recommends! Every exquisite story is a reappearance of Kawabata Yasunari's aesthetic style. "Wisteria and Strawberry" is Kawabata Yasunari's "Collection of Palm Novels", which includes a total of 55 palm novels such as "Five Cents" and "Beauty Under the Moon". In the evening of late spring and early summer, the wife and husband were talking about a wonderful thing by the window. The sister of an old friend had an inexplicable attachment to her because of her sister's friendship with this lady. This reminded my wife of the lost girl time under the wisteria trees in Nara... The swaying wisteria flowers by the quiet lake were like a hazy dream.

"Flowers Are Not Sleeping" is a collection of classic works by the Japanese literary master Kawabata Yasunari. It includes essays such as "Flowers Are Not Sleeping", "I am in Beautiful Japan", "The Existence and Discovery of Beauty", and "The Beauty of Japanese Literature". These four articles on literature and aesthetic topics elaborate on the "beauty" in Kawabata Yasunari's heart, emphasizing his creative outlook based on the sense of disillusionment and vanity of uncertainty about life and death, as well as his admiration for the culture of the Heian Dynasty. His Zen thoughts and literary concepts are very oriental. In addition, short stories and novels such as "The Ballad of Wings", "Crystal Fantasy", "Snow", "Autumn Rain" and "Parent's Heart" are also included, which also reflect his active literary exploration and experimentation, inherit and carry forward the Japanese and Oriental "mono-sorrow" tradition, and reflect the essence of his Oriental aesthetics.

Kawabata Yasunari, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a master of Japanese aesthetic literature, is a masterpiece that will not be forgotten! "A Thousand Cranes", "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Friends" and "Distant Journey".

The work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, nine touching moments about love, is the first collection of Zhuyu short stories published in China. "People Who Love" is a short story collection by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari. It includes nine short stories including "Mother's First Love", "A Woman's Dream", and "Letter About a Black Mole". A girl who was adopted by her mother's first love after her mother's death and fell silently in love with her mother's first love; a girl who has been unable to successfully date because of her first love's suicide; a wife who feels guilty because of her quirks; a dancing girl who is keen on playing dice; newlyweds who have just begun to feel the loveliness of children... Kawabata Yasunari's short stories are delicate, gentle and natural. The whole book centers on "love" and describes nine subtle moments about "love".

Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece and Nobel Prize-winning work. The representative works of Japanese post-war literature use words to outline the beauty of color, the centuries-old circulation of an ancient tea set, and a story of abnormal love involving two generations. They show the conflict between love and morality. They also depict the psychology very delicately, showing a scene of extreme beauty and sadness. "Thousand Cranes" is a short story collection by Kawabata Yasunari, which includes "Thousand Cranes" and the sequel to "Thousand Cranes", "A Chidori on the Blue Waves". The story mainly tells that Mitani Kikuharu's father had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako during his lifetime, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota, but was alienated from the former because of the latter. Four years after his father's death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Chikako Kurimoto. Because Mrs. Ota missed Kikuji's father, she actually moved on to his son Kikuji, and Kikuji also accepted this immoral love. However, Mrs. Ota drank medicine and committed suicide out of guilt. Mrs. Ota's daughter Fumiko gradually fell in love with Kikuji during her contact with him. Chikako introduced her female disciple Yukiko to Kikuji and tried every means to bring them together. Wenzi was so ashamed of her mother that she finally left without saying goodbye.

"Sound of the Mountain" depicts the story of Shingo's family, his son's affair, his daughter's failure of marriage, and the sorrow of old age... Kawabata Yasunari uses his usual beautiful brushwork to delicately and calmly condense the post-war world, style and reality into Japan's ancient sorrow and melancholy, demonstrating the skill of overlapping images of poetry and drama.

Love should be reserved for those who deserve it. "Snow Country" is a crystal clear artistic world carved by Kawabata Yasunari's pen. This place, far away from the hustle and bustle, is full of the emptiness and silence of the original state of life. Through the portrayal of the three main characters Shimamura, Komako and Ye Zi, the novel shows the unremitting pursuit of beautiful love, the ultimate yearning for the beauty of reality, and the infinite sorrow for nihilism. Perhaps, love is like the blurry scene on the car window in the snowy country, hazy and as light as the mist before the rising sun, adding a touch of smudged color to the white and cold world...

Oki fell in love with a girl Neko, but it ended with the girl giving birth prematurely, dying of a baby girl, and having a mental breakdown. Omu wrote this experience into a best-selling book, where suppressed feelings were rekindled, spreading unpredictable fires in new relationships, and eventually led to a conflagration. Different from the simple content of the early works, "Beauty and Sorrow" expresses various clues and emotions such as first love, unethical love, same-sex love, teenage revenge, etc. It expresses deeper psychology and the deeper secrets of human nature, and reflects Kawabata's more advanced narrative skills in the late period. It is more mature, has more breadth and depth, and is more readable. It is praised by Mishima Yukio as the "methodological work" that best reflects Kawabata's writing ability. Reading it can gain a fuller feeling and a more complete understanding of Kawabata Yasunari.