“For a woman to see a man's face, to see his bare skin, was a delight. But for her to see his naked soul, that was a pleasure that could kill.”

About Yasunari Kawabata

Author • Japanese

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works...