The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Reiko Tsukimura [in AsianWeek]
08 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
An oddly compelling novella about a lonely man who never quite gets the girl – any girl – but is unwilling to give up trying. Indeed, few writers can do isolation quite like Kawabata, the Nobel-Prize-winning...