Description: Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. "A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke".--Chicago Tribune.
Review Quotes: "A literary habitat like no other ... quietly devastating fiction.... Behind a lyrical and understated surface, chaotic passions pulse."
--The Independent (London)
--The Atlantic