3.55 avg rating — 44,953 ratings

"The most delicately beautiful book I've read."

3.69 avg rating — 16,791 ratings

"Tentative relationships. Delicate prose."

4.11 avg rating — 580,503 ratings

"A magical mix and setting."

3.84 avg rating — 10,055 ratings

"The private self set against that shown even to intimates."

3.98 avg rating — 778,027 ratings

"Romantic, eclectic, a coffee table book."

3.95 avg rating — 350,750 ratings

"Massively inventive, yet let down by 2 significant sections/reasons."

3.93 avg rating — 52,343 ratings

"Highly readable if not fully rounded in plausibility."

3.79 avg rating — 16,291 ratings

"It's Kawabata (even if not his best). Read any Kawabata."