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Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura.
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An extraordinary work.......
- De Raj Saberwal en 05-29-14
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as it exists.
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A difficult and disturbing paradox
- De Dan Harlow en 04-18-14
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Sound of Waves
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
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Remote Japanese island beautifully depicted
- De Bruce en 09-17-15
De: Yukio Mishima
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.
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- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
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A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
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Unsettling writing, flawed reading
- De Erez en 11-22-12
De: Yukio Mishima
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A Personal Matter
- De: Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan - translator
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
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Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel". In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child?
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Should have been better
- De Erez en 07-24-12
De: Kenzaburo Oe, y otros
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The Pillow Book
- De: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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Exquisite. Truly!
- De Erick DuPree en 01-10-23
De: Sei Shōnagon
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- De: Haruki Murakami
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
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Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
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Human Wonder and the End of my Patience.
- De Kindle Customer en 01-08-20
De: Haruki Murakami
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A Tale for the Time Being
- De: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrado por: Ruth Ozeki
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox - possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami.
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Engaging story beautifully read
- De Karen en 01-30-14
De: Ruth Ozeki
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beauty and Sadness
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- Korashino Nikku
- 04-25-24
Amazing Novel, Not-So-Amazing Narration
I hate to leave a bad review for my favorite novel, but I thought the voicing and tone was completely wrong. Keiko was read as too playful and childlike, even when seducing different characters, and Taichiro sounds like an oaf despite his background as an academic. There were so many scenes that were nearly unbearable to listen to or lost all of their subtext and subtlety because of the one dimensional (and at times absurd) voices.
The saving grace of the narration is their pronunciation and emotion while reading scenic and descriptive text.
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- Kathleen
- 07-10-11
Beauty and Sadness
I wouldn't start with this late novel. Don't want to say too much about it, it has a fascinating mood of impending doom, nostalgia, frustration. I even got caught up in the plot/drama, but do not think it an entirely successful work, more of a fable than character study. I am devoted to this author and his tonality and especially when the characters work as realistic persons. Many pleasing things in the prose descriptions, the evocations of season, time of day, a floating world.
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- Alexander
- 03-25-14
Beautifully written, but lacks perspective
Would you try another book from Yasunari Kawabata and/or Brian Nishii?
I'll get to Nishii later. As for Kawabata I will definitely try him again because the language and style used was extraordinarily beautiful and I really liked it.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
While I do have a very dull theory of why it ended as it did (what did happen isn't explicitly said, but it's quite clear) I just hope there's a better and deeper explanation. So my stance on the ending is that I didn't get it, despite listening through the two last chapters twice.
What about Brian Nishii’s performance did you like?
I've listened to two Mishima books by Brian Nishii before (Temple of the Golden Pavillion and Sound of Waves) and was very impressed with his narration. For this book however I was a bit disappointed. It's still really good, but not nearly as good as his Mishima performances.
What I really like about him, and where I feel he failed a bit here, is that he usually pronounces Japanese names in a very non-garbled non-american accent but still without having it sound forced or interrupting the flow of the text. It still doesn't interrupt the text, but it is a bit less authentic in this one.
Oh, and his interpretation of the younger girl is really annoying. But you get used to it.
Did Beauty and Sadness inspire you to do anything?
I don't think this is the appropriate venue for such confessions.
Any additional comments?
A lot of it is written from a female perspective by a very male writer. I like having books from a woman's point of view every now and then, but despite being from a female perspective it's very clearly written by a man. We're talking way over 50% of the book being from the women's perspective (there are two of them) with little trace of them having a life that's not circulating around Oki and his son.
Of course, the book is in part a product of it's time and all but this really got to me. It's my only complaint about the book, but it's a big one.
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- Nitenurse
- 05-26-18
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Kawabata is a skilled writer and he does not disappoint in this short novel that looks at the many facets of love and the results of its passions and betrayals. Nothing is permanent in life except death. However, the narrator of the audible version of the book, Nishii, was both monotonous and boring. His vocal inflections when speaking as a female character were extremely annoying and detracted from the story. It is Kawabata's skill with words that kept me listening to the book despite the terrible, terrible narrator.
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- Douglas
- 02-21-16
A Marvelous Example...
of the best of Japanese literature. Quiet, lyrical, poetic, the story of a long ago love affair blooms before the reader in vivid shape and color like a delicate flower. Listen leisurely and enjoy this great classic.
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- Bernarda Jara
- 02-28-24
The emotion of the characters.
Excellent read, mindblowing and intense. The pacing was a little slow, but it was breathtaking nevertheless.
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- Emily
- 10-29-10
nostalgic literature from Japan
After listening to several of Haruki Murakami's books on Audible (Kafka on the Shore; Dance Dance Dance; What I Write About When I Write about Running), I wanted to try some other Japanese authors. Kawabata is a more "traditional" 20th century Japanese writer, but I knew very little about his work before listening to this book.
What a beautiful, well-crafted story! The main character, Oki, is a novelist in his 50s who, in the first chapters of the book, visits his former lover, Otoko, on a business trip to Kyoto. Oki memorialized their love affair in his book, A Girl of Sixteen, but Otoko is now 40 and is a successful painter. She lives with her protegee and lover, Keiko, a young, beguiling woman who manages to seduce both Otoko and his son in her quest to gain "revenge" for Oki's leaving Otoko 20 years previously. The tale, as anticipated, ends tragically, but from beginning to end the author writes marvelously about love, hate, desire, jealousy-- and Japan. It made me want to be in Kyoto, just to hear the descriptions of the temples and bells and sanctuaries of Kyoto. I could just imagine Otoko and Keiko tying their hand-painted kimonos with colorful "obi".
I am glad that Audible added this author to its selection. I would have given this book 5 stars if it weren't for the sometimes clumsy characterizations of the reader. The female voices sounded falsetto and exaggerated, while Oki's son's voice was unnaturally deep.
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- Narendra
- 12-17-10
Excellent reading of a nice novel
The novel has many layers for analytical understanding as it opens up different relations backed by emotion and lust, betrayal and trust. Besides triggerring thoughtful review of the characters, their motives of life and their deep lonliness, the novel has a beautiful narration which takes a reader along. What made me impressive is the excellent style of reading Brian Nishii has rendered.
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- Preston Denlinger
- 02-26-16
Dislikable narrator over an uneventful storyline.
The narrator exacerbated everything I didn't like book, so if he doesn't bother you, it could completely change your opinion.
Some of the 'hot and heavy' scenes were gross and weird simply because of how the guy said things like "nipple", seriously. At any rate, very little actually happens in the plot, and the setting, atmosphere, and characters are given more attention because of that. The problem with this is that the characters seemed like complete halfwits because apparently 'love makes people illogical' , but I just ended up irritated with almost everyone for some reason or another. The passion and intimacy I expected from a story about mistresses, spiritual revenge, among other heavy thematic elements, were almost entirely non-existant; most narrative benchmarks, were markedly flat and lacking excitement. I felt that the story slipped into monotony far too frequently.
It took me multiple attempts to finish, which I suppose I'm glad I did because, at least now I know I didn't really miss much, despite the few insights I had while going through. Overall, it was just wrong for me.
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