First Snow on Fuji Essays & Short Stories She was fierce and otherworldly—and

She was fierce and otherworldly—and yet strangely familiar

A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers

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First Snow on Fuji Essays & Short Stories She was fierce and otherworldly—andThe stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabatas