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Blackdogbooks (Mac) – The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Cait86 – Germinal by Émile Zola
Carmenere – House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
Chrine – The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
Cmt (Cushla) – The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Dc ... ... only a little bit too late. What a drippy, whining little woman!
On a more positive note, thanks for your comments on House of the Sleeping Beauties; I've been looking forward to reading more Yasunari Kawabata since reading the wonderful Snow Country last year - looks like this might ... House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
Fiction, translated from the Japanese, 1961
A simple yet extraordinary story that deals with the themes of old age, sexuality, sadness and death. A brothel for impotent old men houses virgins who have been put to sleep. The old ... Tear This Heart Out by Angeles Mastretta
... Opium Eater and Suspiria De Profundis)
(Restriction to 10 makes me cut off Yasunari Kawabata's unforgetable House of the Sleeping Beauties, al-Ghitani's Zayni Barakat, Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl, Cavendish's The Black Arts, The stories of Kleist, Gogol, M. R. James, ... House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories by Yasunari Kawabata 30) The House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
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a brothel of virginal sleeping prostitutes, a man fascinated with the disembodied talking arm of a girl, and a misanthropic pet collector. Three surreal works of fiction that explore common themes of Japanese L ... The House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata ... Marias, Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me (etc)
alt.: Hjalmar Soderberg, Doctor Glas
Asia: Yasunari Kawabata, The House of the Sleeping Beauties
alt: Junichiro Tanizaki, The Gourmet Club
Africa: Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
alt: Gamal Al-Ghitani. Z ... ... with.
Some favorites I recommend are A Personal Matter by Oe Kenzaburo, The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo, and The House of the Sleeping Beauties by Kawabata Yasunari.
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