Meijin. Snow Country

— Two novels by the Nobel Prize laureate in literature in one volume. — Published in the series «Library of Classics» — in a dust jacket and strict design. Yasunari Kawabata considered the novel «Meijin» published in 1951 (previously released... in Russian under the title «The Master of Go») to be his best work. The book is based on a real event — the six-month-long «Farewell Game» of the great meijin against a promising young opponent. In front of numerous spectators, the health of the elderly master begins to decline, youth gradually prevails over experience, and age-old traditions give way to scientific calculation and pragmatism. This edition also includes the novel «Snow Country». With this book, they search for: Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata, Meijin, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, Mountain's Woe, go game, go, classics, Japanese literature, Japanese classics, world classics, Library of Classics