3.56 avg rating — 42,803 ratings

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

3.69 avg rating — 16,071 ratings

"Tentative relationships. Delicate prose."

4.11 avg rating — 559,011 ratings

"A magical mix and setting."

3.84 avg rating — 9,757 ratings

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

3.99 avg rating — 746,275 ratings

"Romantic, eclectic, a coffee table book."

3.95 avg rating — 343,530 ratings

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

3.94 avg rating — 49,576 ratings

"Highly readable if not fully rounded in plausibility."

3.79 avg rating — 15,649 ratings

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